Opinion | The Biden administration needs to up its game on public diplomacy

The Biden administration and congressional leaders must start by radically restructuring, and then dramatically increasing funding for, USAGM. The Trump administration made a huge mistake by politicizing government-supported media organizations. Biden, working with Congress, should make all USAGM entities that are dedicated to news — Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks and Radio Martí — completely independent of the executive branch, with funding provided from Congress and oversight from nonpartisan boards. The highly effective Open Technology Fund, which funds Internet freedom technologies at every stage of the development cycle, should also become an independent organization.