Some of RFE/RL's Prague employees are staying home, radio station has not received money for April

Some of the Prague employees of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) will be staying home with salary compensation as of Wednesday, due to work disruption, RFE/RL informed ČTK in a press release. This is due to the fact that the station has still not received the funds allocated by the US Congress for April. President Donald Trump's administration wants to end funding for RFE/RL, and the radio station is now defending itself in court.

The US Congress has allocated approximately $77 million (1.8 billion crowns) to fund the station until the end of September this year. US lawmakers have not reversed their decision, so efforts to end RFE/RL's funding are based on Mr. Trump's executive orders. However, according to the radio station, it is Congress that decides such a step.

The United States Agency for Global Media, through which the radio station normally receives money, informed the station last Wednesday that it was reversing its previous decision to end funding, and the grant agreement for this fiscal year is now in effect. However, no money allocated by Congress has been received by the radio station since then, RFE/RL has stated.