On Tuesday, The U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs held a South and Central Asia Subcommittee hearing on the Censorship-Industrial Complex chaired by Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., which detailed the extent to which U.S. tax dollars have been used to censor conservative American voices.

Huizenga opened his remarks by describing how a former office of the U.S. State Department known as the Global Engagement Center (GEC), was originally designed to work against foreign propaganda but ended up pushing back against American conservatives.

“Despite that mandate, the GEC for years deployed its shadowy network of grantees and subgrantees to facilitate the censorship of American voices,” Huizenga said in his opening remarks. “Especially if those voices were conservative and refused to align with the left-leaning establishment politics.

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