Radio Free Asia (RFA), with an estimated 50+ million listeners in Asia, is one of the only ways the U.S. government can communicate with people living in authoritarian regimes.
People in Asia even risk their lives to listen to RFA, including a North Korean fishing boat captain who was reportedly executed in front of 100 colleagues for listening to FRA.
Trump furloughed virtually their entire staff of 300.
Without Radio Free Asia, Chinese and other authoritarian propaganda may go unchallenged in many parts of the world, increasing worldwide threats to freedom.