Mike Lee Takes On Taxpayer-Funded Propaganda With Charlie Kirk Act

Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee introduced legislation Thursday to restore protections against government-funded propaganda targeted at Americans.

The legislation, dubbed the Charlie Kirk Act after the recently assassinated Turning Point USA founder, would restore protections from the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act to block the federal government from “propagandizing its own citizens shaping media narratives,” according to a press release. The bill’s introduction comes after Kirkdied on Sept. 10 after being shot — allegedly by an accused assassin reportedly indoctrinated by left-wing ideology — during a speaking event at Utah Valley University.

“From the end of World War II until the Obama administration, it was illegal for the US government to use the State Department’s foreign broadcasting apparatus to target American citizens with propaganda,” Lee