A U.S. District Court judge ordered the Trump administration to explain why it is apparently not following his order to restore operations at the government-run Voice of America. Judge Royce Lamberth said it appears the administration is running out the clock on the fiscal year and not spending the money Congress appropriated for the agency, which has provided news coverage in countries outside of the United States since World War II. The administration's special adviser overseeing these government-run agencies, said in June that 85% of employees at VOA and the U.S. Agency for Global Media had been laid off.