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'Shut them down': Musk calls for closure of two major radios

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: News websites
  • 9 Feb 2025 23:15
2 Min Read

Elon Musk has called for shutting down Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America as part of DOGE's cost-cutting initiative.

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  • Elon Musk speaks at a presidential inauguration event on behalf of President-elect Donald Trump in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP)
    Elon Musk speaks at a presidential inauguration event on behalf of President Donald Trump in Washington, January 20, 2025. (AP)

Billionaire Elon Musk, the chief of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has called for shutting down Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America. 

Musk responded to a post published by US President Donald Trump's special envoy, Richard Grenell, describing RFE/RL and Voice of America as "a relic of the past", "filled with far-left activists", and allegedly being paid for by American taxpayers, calling for their closure. 

"Yes, shut them down... It’s just radical left crazy people talking to themselves while torching $1B/year of US taxpayer money," he stated in a post on his platform X.

Yes, shut them down.

1. Europe is free now (not counting stifling bureaucracy). Hello??

2. Nobody listens to them anymore.

3. It’s just radical left crazy people talking to themselves while torching $1B/year of US taxpayer money. https://t.co/PnmN4erD91

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 9, 2025

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