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His statement was quickly supported by Elon Musk, who responded: <strong>&#8220;Yes, shut them down.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grenell stated that American taxpayers fund <strong>Voice of America and Radio Free Europe<\/strong>, which he described as <strong>state-owned media<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;These media outlets are full of far-left activists. I\u2019ve worked with these journalists for decades. It\u2019s a relic of the past,&#8221; Grenell wrote on the platform X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Radio Free Europe and Voice of America are media outlets paid for by the American taxpayers. <br><br>It is state-owned media. <br><br>These outlets are filled with far left activists. <br><br>I\u2019ve worked with these reporters for decades. <br><br>It\u2019s a relic of the past. We don\u2019t need government paid\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardGrenell\/status\/1888382972514250962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He emphasized that there is no need for government-funded media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk then responded to Grenell\u2019s post with a short but direct message: <strong>&#8220;Yes, shut them down.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Europe is now free (aside from the suffocating bureaucracy), and no one listens to them anymore. It\u2019s just radical leftists talking to themselves while burning a billion dollars a year from the pockets of American taxpayers,&#8221; wrote the <strong>world\u2019s richest man and a key figure in Trump\u2019s White House<\/strong> on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cutting government spending and a &#8220;purge&#8221; of federal agencies<\/strong> were high on the agenda of Trump\u2019s presidential campaign, which was linked to the <strong>&#8220;Project 2025&#8221;<\/strong> initiative by the Heritage Foundation and criticized by Democrats as a <strong>Trumpist platform<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">FIND OUT MORE IN ENGLISH:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fserbiantimes%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02T9zxMqH7VGQwJMvtdf5ufhA57JmxPewAr2Gmrc2C6zU9TWiuzNg4EkLUJnz8T7tgl&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although Trump claimed to have no connection to <strong>&#8220;Project 2025,&#8221;<\/strong> it appears that the goals of this conservative platform\u2014including the planned dismissal of at least <strong>50,000 federal employees<\/strong>\u2014are being implemented step by step since the new president took office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n+<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes, shut them down. <br><br>1. 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