President Donald Trump signed an executive order cutting funding from seven federal programs deemed 'unnecessary' including a library program.

President Trump signed an executive order Friday to dismantle seven federal agencies, including the one overseeing Voice of America (VOA) and other government-funded media outlets. The order demands that agency heads eliminate all non-mandatory functions and scale back required ones to the legal minimum.

The move is the latest from the administration that’s working with the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

The order affects workers at six federal agencies, plus workers who had already been granted relief through an earlier ruling.

An appeals court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s request for an immediate stay on a lower court ruling that reinstated thousands of probationary federal employees who had been fired. A three-judge panel on the U.