The Trump administration terminated nearly 600 contractors at Voice of America, a government-funded news network, amounting to more than a third of the staff, The Desk reported.

The move came weeks after a U.S. district judge blocked the White House from dismantling the VOA until a lawsuit filed by American Federation of Government Employees (AGFE) and other unions for illegally shutting down the congressionally mandated agency was settled.

Patsy Widakuswara, VOA’s White House bureau chief and one of the lead plaintiffs in the employees’ lawsuit against senior presidential adviser Kari Lake and the U.S. Agency for Global Media, told Politico the plaintiffs and the legal team “will fight this in court for as long as it takes. Until there is no more fight left.”

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