Defund and abolish the broadcasting agency if it is not reformed
What the document says“the USAGM should be defunded and disestablished.”
The chapter conditions this on the agency's aim remaining, in its words, to compete in foreign markets using anti-US talking points that parrot America's adversaries' propaganda, which it says would be an unacceptable burden on the taxpayer. It first asks for the agency to be reformed top to bottom with congressional and White House support.
What the document actually says“the USAGM should be defunded and disestablished.”
If that does not change, close the agency and stop its money.
The book first asks for this agency to be fixed. It says that must happen top to bottom. If it does not, the book says to shut it down.
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
2025-03-14 · 90 FR 13043
Executive Order 14238 names the United States Agency for Global Media among seven entities whose non-statutory components and functions shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law, and whose statutory functions and associated personnel shall be reduced to the minimum presence and function required by law, with the Office of Management and Budget directed to reject funding requests inconsistent with that. That is the defunding the chapter contemplates, done by executive order. It does not disestablish the agency, which was created by statute and would take an act of Congress, and it is not conditional in the way the chapter's recommendation is: the chapter asks first for reform top to bottom and would defund only if the agency's aim did not change, while the order sets no condition and gives no reason tied to what the agency broadcasts.
The order cuts the broadcast agency to the least the law allows. Its funding requests are to be turned down. But it is not shut down, which would take an act of Congress. And the chapter would have cut it only if reform failed first.