In a scathing order, a federal judge demanded the Trump administration to pause mass layoffs at the agency that oversees Voice of America, Axios reports. In his order, Lamberth noted that an April preliminary injunction "ordered the administration to 'restore VOA programming' to 'serve as a consistently reliable and authoritative source of news,'" Axios reports. The judge also hammered Lake and the administration for complicating the court's requests in the case. And though he noted that plaintiffs had not sought contempt proceedings in the case that names Lake as a defendant, the judge condemned her conduct. "However, its deference to the plaintiffs with respect to further proceedings should not be mistaken for lenience toward the defendants' egregious erstwhile conduct," said Judge Lambert.