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Hello and welcome to the excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Wednesday, May 7th, 2025, and this is a special episode of The Exert.

As a bulwark against the flood of propaganda and misinformation coming from China and Russia. The United States

Agency for Global Media is a global beacon of American freedom and democracy, reaching nearly

500 million listeners every day. Two of the six entities underneath USAGM are Voice of America

and Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty.

While a March executive order by President Donald Trump to dismantle them has been reversed by the courts,

their continued existence is uncertain as Republicans hammer out a new budget that aims to deliver on the president's agenda.

While the future of US AGM is uncertain, why should Americans care? Here to help us dig into this is Jaffet Kitson, an associate fellow at the Center for Strategic

and International Studies. Jaffett, thanks for joining me.

Thank you for having me.

Let's start with a little history. Voice of America's first broadcast was back in

1942 to Germany and included this bit. Quote, we bring you voices from America. Today and daily from now on,

we shall speak to you about America and the war. The news may be good for us. The news may be bad, but we shall tell you the truth."

Unquote. Tell us a little bit about VOA. What was the intent?

So if you look at VOA, we're looking at a radio program that tried to, as you said, bring out factual information,

no matter if it was good for Americans, if it was bad for Americans, the point was the truth.

With Nazi disinformation, so prevalent in European airwaves,

it would behooved to the United States to provide up-to-date developments on what was happening.

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