Consolidate overlapping foreign language broadcasting services
What the document says“Fiscal responsibility and transparency should return to the USAGM, with consolidation being a cornerstone of the strategy.”
The chapter says surplus services broadcasting in the same languages are often unnecessary and counterproductive, naming Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty in the surrounding passage, and makes consolidation the center of its approach.
What the document actually says“Fiscal responsibility and transparency should return to the USAGM, with consolidation being a cornerstone of the strategy.”
Bring back careful spending here. Joining services together is the main way to do it.
This agency runs several radio stations abroad. Some cover the same languages. The book says that is a waste. It wants them joined together.
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
2025-03-14 · 90 FR 13043
Executive Order 14238 acts on the size of the same agency. It eliminates the non-statutory components and functions of the United States Agency for Global Media and reduces its statutory functions and personnel to the minimum required by law, which reaches the surplus services the chapter says are unnecessary. It goes a different way from the proposal. Consolidation, the cornerstone the chapter names, would merge overlapping foreign language broadcasting into fewer services, while the order cuts back across the agency without merging anything, names no service or language, and says nothing about the fiscal responsibility and transparency the chapter asks be restored.
The order shrinks the same agency. It cuts as far as the law allows. The chapter wanted the many language services merged into fewer. The order merges nothing and names no service. It also says nothing about better spending and openness.