[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]

![xray_media Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1893912133181800448.png) White House Xray [@xray_media](/creator/twitter/xray_media) on x 2641 followers
Created: 2025-07-12 12:52:12 UTC

The admin’s free speech crusade has a fatal flaw: It requires silencing everyone else. Trump’s “restoration” project—starving USAID, gutting USAGM, and kneecapping NED—isn’t about defending discourse. It’s about monopolizing it.  

Since January, they’ve erased $268M in global media grants, defunded XXXXX USAID contracts, and furloughed XXXXX VOA journalists—all while Musk’s DOGE smears these programs as “criminal.” Radio Rozana’s Syria coverage? Dead. Ukraine’s XX% USAID-dependent newsrooms? Crippled. Detained USAGM reporters? Abandoned. This isn’t policy; it’s arson.  

When ‘restoring free speech’ means erasing it, the Orwellian playbook is complete.


XX engagements

![Engagements Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/p:tweet::1944016946162446474/c:line.svg)

**Related Topics**
[$268m](/topic/$268m)
[usaid](/topic/usaid)
[trumps](/topic/trumps)
[fatal](/topic/fatal)
[white house](/topic/white-house)

[Post Link](https://x.com/xray_media/status/1944016946162446474)