Secretary of State Marco Rubio has introduced the closure of a State Department effort that he accused of spending tens of millions on censorship.
“I’m pronouncing the closure of the State Division’s Counter International Knowledge Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI), previously referred to as the International Engagement Heart (GEC),” Rubio said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
“Below the former management, this administrative center, which value taxpayers greater than $50 million according to 12 months, spent tens of millions of bucks to actively silence and censor the voices of American citizens they had been meant to be serving,” Rubio asserted.
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Sec. of State Marco Rubio shakes arms with Egyptian International Minister Badr Abdelatty throughout a photograph alternative forward of a gathering within the U.S. State Division Construction on Feb. 10, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures)
The GEC closed in December, consistent with an archived State Department website content this is nonetheless viewable on-line.
Rubio asserted in a work revealed on The Federalist that the GEC had no longer if truth be told ended, however used to be merely re-branded.
“When Republicans in Congress sundown GEC’s investment on the finish of ultimate 12 months, the Biden State Division merely slapped on a brand new title. The GEC turned into the Counter International Knowledge Manipulation and Interference (R-FIMI) administrative center, with the similar roster of workers. With this new title, they was hoping to live on the transition to the brand new management,” Rubio wrote. “As of late, we’re hanging that to an finish. No matter title it is going via, GEC is useless. It’ll no longer go back.”
Former Space lawmaker Dan Bishop, who’s now serving as deputy director of the Place of business of Control and Funds, thanked Rubio. “That is the way in which,” the previous congressman wrote in a post on X.
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Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wisc., replied to Rubio’s announcement, tweeting, “Very good.”
