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Appeals Panel Pauses Ruling to Release RFE/RL’s April Funds [1]

['Rowan Humphries']

Date: 2025-05-07 21:11:28+00:00

(WASHINGTON) — By a 2-1 vote today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a stay pending appeal of the April 29 district court order requiring the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) to immediately disburse Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)’s congressionally appropriated funds for April. Today’s decision means RFE/RL will not receive those desperately needed funds, approximately $12 million.

The dissenting member of the panel wrote that “RFE/RL faces existential harm from [the appeals court’s] stay of the district court’s temporary restraining order.”

RFE/RL has filed an emergency petition asking the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (sitting en banc) to reconsider and reverse the panel’s stay decision.

RFE/RL President and CEO Stephen Capus said:

“We’re confident the law is on our side, but this delay means RFE/RL needs to continue reducing staff and programming. Every day without our congressionally appropriated funds, we’re losing more of our audiences to the state-sponsored propaganda networks of China, Russia, and Iran, who are eagerly filling the information vacuum the U.S. is needlessly and recklessly leaving behind.”

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