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KEATING LEADS 40 COLLEAGUES URGING POTUS TO RESCIND EO ON USAGM [1]

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Date: 2025-03-25 17:59:37-04:00

Washington, D.C. – Today, Subcommittee on Europe Ranking Member Bill Keating led 40 colleagues urging President Trump to immediately reverse his Executive Order regarding the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and to restore and implement Congressionally appropriated funds for USAGM and its entities.

“USAGM and its entities including Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, and more serve as a vital soft power tools that enables those in closed societies to gain access to credible, reliable, and objective information about the world. Their work is so powerful that regimes in Iran, Russia, and China have condemned it as a threat to national security,” said Ranking Member Keating. “President Trump’s reckless Executive Order hides the truth from those who seek it and emboldens American adversaries who are threatened by credible media. At the same time, the President undermines the work of countless civil servants and government employees whose dedicated work at these agencies and entities have made America safer, stronger, and more prosperous.”

A copy of the letter is available here and a list of colleagues joining the letter is below:

William R. Keating

Gregory W. Meeks

Jonathan L. Jackson

Joaquin Castro

Dina Titus

Jim Costa

Sydney Kamlager-Dove

Ami Bera, M.D.

Mike Quigley

James P. McGovern

Jill Tokuda

Derek T. Tran

Sarah McBride

Marcy Kaptur

Brad Sherman

Gerald E. Connolly

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

Ed Case

Jason Crow

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Chrissy Houlahan

Wesley Bell

Ted W. Lieu

Yassamin Ansari

Seth Moulton

Bradley Scott Schneider

Lloyd Doggett

Daniel Goldman

Donald S. Beyer Jr.

Rick Larsen

Josh Gottheimer

Sara Jacobs

Marilyn Strickland

George Latimer

Jimmy Panetta

Greg Stanton

Maggie Goodlander

Raja Krishnamoorthi

Julie Johnson

Mikie Sherrill

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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