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The claim that "Obama repealed the Smith‑Mundt Act" is : the statutory change commonly referenced is the Smith‑Mundt Modernization Act passed by Congress in 2013 during the Obama administration, which...
The Smith–Mundt Modernization Act, enacted as part of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, relaxed a long-standing prohibition that had largely prevented U.S.-produced public diplomacy materia...
The Smith–Mundt Act originally barred the State Department and US-funded broadcasters from deliberately distributing government-produced programming to U.S. audiences; that domestic-dissemination proh...
The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 amended earlier law to allow government-funded international broadcasting and information programs to be made available domestically; the change was enacted a...
The Smith–Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 has generated sustained controversy: critics contend it weakens a long-standing “firewall” against government-produced information targeting domestic audience...
Roughly half of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 “wishlist” has been put into motion through a mix of executive orders, regulatory changes, hiring choices and congressional moves—actions tracked...
The Smith–Mundt Modernization provisions were folded into the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2013 and primarily changed the domestic dissemination limits of the 1948 U.S. Information and Edu...
The Smith‑Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 amended the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize U.S. government-produced information intended for foreign audiences to...
The Smith-Mundt Act’s original ban on domestic dissemination of U.S. government foreign propaganda sought to prevent the government from targeting Americans with state-produced information; its partia...
SIGAR’s audits and reporting document specific ways U.S. funds reached the Taliban-controlled authorities after August 2021: at least $10.9 million in U.S. funds were used to pay taxes, fees, duties a...
The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 was advanced as a bipartisan change to longstanding restrictions that had barred U.S.-funded international broadcasters and information programs from being di...
The core difference is that the original Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 prohibited the U.S. government from distributing its foreign public diplomacy materials domestically, while the Smith-Mundt Modernizati...
The administration has put into motion a substantial portion of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 blueprint, translating elements of the plan into executive orders, agency rules, and budget reque...
The Smith–Mundt Act (United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948) authorized the U.S. government to prepare and disseminate information and educational materials abroad about the Un...
Available reporting in the provided sources does not state when Dr. Mehmet Oz first met Kari Lake or describe the context of any first meeting; searches and news clips focus on both figures separately...
Critics of the Margraten cemetery’s design phase focused on two linked issues: the site’s original layout and narrative initially minimized the role and agency of Black American servicemen who built a...
Congress removed Smith–Mundt’s long-standing domestic-dissemination ban in the 2013 modernization, allowing US international broadcasters’ materials to be made available in the U.S. upon request . Tha...
The Smith–Mundt Modernization Act (part of 2012–13 legislative changes) loosened a long-standing constraint by allowing U.S. government-produced materials aimed at foreign audiences to be made availab...
The Smith–Mundt Modernization provisions were adopted as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 and took effect in mid‑2013; the law “went into effect on July 2, 2013” acc...
In 2013 Congress amended provisions of the Smith–Mundt Act through language folded into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), easing restrictions so that U.S. government-produced materials ai...