WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday seeking to dismantle seven additional federal agencies, including the one that oversees Voice of America and other government-funded media outlets around the world.

Trump directed the heads of the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention not statutorily mandated. The leaders should also “reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence,” the order said. Like many of the president’s moves in his wide-ranging effort to shrink the government, the order appears to test the bounds of his authority. Voice of America’s parent, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, for example, is congressionally chartered as an independent agency, and Congress passed a law in 2020 intended to limit the power of the presidentially appointed chief executive.

— The New York Times