{"id":15917,"date":"2025-03-28T11:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T11:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-restores-funds-for-radio-free-europe-and-reinstates-cuba-broadcasters\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T11:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T11:17:24","slug":"trump-restores-funds-for-radio-free-europe-and-reinstates-cuba-broadcasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-restores-funds-for-radio-free-europe-and-reinstates-cuba-broadcasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Restores Funds for Radio Free Europe and Reinstates Cuba Broadcasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Reversing course, the Trump administration on Thursday restored funding for Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty, a federally financed news organization born out of American efforts to counter Soviet propaganda during the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The decision to again support the news group, known as RFE\/RL, came two days after a federal judge in Washington <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/26\/us\/politics\/trump-radio-free-europe.html\" title=\"\">temporarily blocked<\/a> President Trump\u2019s push to close it down, saying Mr. Trump cannot unilaterally dismantle the news organization established by Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Also Thursday, the administration <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.nysd.639139\/gov.uscourts.nysd.639139.43.0.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reinstated 33 employees<\/a> at the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/24\/world\/americas\/radio-marti-cuba-trump-castro.html\" title=\"\">a federal news outlet<\/a> critical of the island\u2019s communist government, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/americas\/cuba\/article302945789.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">allowing<\/a> the radio station\u2019s programming to resume.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On March 15, the administration terminated all grants for RFE\/RL in a one-page letter, citing Mr. Trump\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/03\/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">executive order<\/a> a day earlier aimed at eliminating RFE\/RL\u2019s parent agency, the U.S. Agency for Global Media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Thursday, the administration claimed that the lawsuit was moot \u2014 since the funding was restored \u2014 rather than continuing to argue for the legitimacy of its March 15 decision to cut funding while complying with the judge\u2019s order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration still reserved the right to terminate the RFE\/RL\u2019s financing \u201cat a later date\u201d if it \u201cwere to determine that such termination was appropriate,\u201d according to the administration\u2019s letter to RFE\/RL that was submitted to the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It is unclear whether the lawsuit will end, as the administration claims. The news outlet had asked the court to declare the March 15 letter unlawful, to bar Trump officials from rescinding funding that Congress appropriated and to order the government to cover RFE\/RL\u2019s legal fees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Thursday, the Trump administration also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278630\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278630.15.0.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">restored funding for Open Technology Fund<\/a>, an independent nonprofit group that Congress has financed to ensure unfettered access to uncensored internet in countries with restrictions, according to court filings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty was founded in the 1950s as an American intelligence operation covertly financed through the Central Intelligence Agency. The broadcaster <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/24\/world\/europe\/rfe-russia-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">sought to foment anti-communist dissent<\/a> in Eastern Europe and Russia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the early 1970s, it has been funded by Congress and has had editorial independence. Today RFE\/RL reports in nearly 30 languages, reaching 47 million people every week in 23 countries, including Afghanistan, Russia and Hungary. The news organization is an independent nonprofit that receives most of its financing from the federal government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Another federally funded news agency, Radio Free Asia or RFA, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278896\/gov.uscourts.dcd.278896.1.0.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sued the Trump administration<\/a> on Thursday, seeking nearly identical relief that RFE\/RL has sought in its lawsuit. RFA had also received a letter on March 15 that terminated all federal grants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Established in 1996 after the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, RFA publishes in 10 languages and reaches an audience of nearly 60 million people each week in six countries, including China, North Korea, Vietnam and Myanmar. Earlier this month, the Chinese state media, Global Times, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202503\/1330246.shtml\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">hailed the freeze of funds<\/a> to Radio Free Asia and a sister news outlet, the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-order-voice-of-america.html\" title=\"\">Voice of America<\/a>, calling them \u201ca lie factory\u201d and \u201ca thoroughly biased propaganda poison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">RFA was one of the first organizations to report on China\u2019s network of detention centers targeting its minority Uyghur population in Xinjiang and has won awards for chronicling human rights abuses and government malpractice across Asia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">RFA and RFE\/RL still provide limited coverage, as they are separate entities from the federal government. That is unlike Voice of America, which is a federal agency whose journalists are government employees. The <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/69771249\/widakuswara-v-kari-lake-in-her-official-capacity-as-senior-advisor-to-the\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">journalists<\/a> at Voice of America, including <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/69791808\/abramowitz-v-lake\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">its director<\/a>, were put on indefinite leave by Mr. Trump\u2019s executive order and are challenging that move in court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The letters to RFA and RFE\/RL were signed by Kari Lake, a special adviser at the federal media agency who appears to be leading the push to gut it. Ms. Lake, who was hired in February, is a former United States Senate candidate in Arizona and local news anchor who peddled false claims that the 2020 presidential election won by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was rigged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Lake was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/12\/us\/politics\/kari-lake-voice-of-america.html\" title=\"\">initially named<\/a> in December to be the next director of Voice of America by Mr. Trump. She was hired as the media agency\u2019s special adviser instead, as legal experts questioned whether Mr. Trump could fire the Voice of America\u2019s director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her appointment <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/28\/business\/media\/voice-of-america-trump.html\" title=\"\">stoked fears<\/a> that the Trump administration would meddle in the editorial decisions of federally funded news organizations. The global media agency has also opened investigations into its journalists for reporting on criticisms of Mr. Trump or making comments that were perceived as critical of him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During his first term, Mr. Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/white-house-voice-of-america.html\" title=\"\">attacked<\/a> the media outlets under the global media agency over their editorial decisions, and his appointees were accused of trying to weaken journalistic safeguards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     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