[Source](https://amgreatness.com/2025/09/23/trump-smith-mundt-act-to-be-restored-domestic-propaganda-halted-under-charlie-kirk-act/) > Senator Lee has argued that, until 2013, it was illegal to “target American citizens with propaganda.” > Lee had previously drafted legislation to restore the Smith-Mundt Act and now will be filing it as the newly renamed Charlie Kirk Act in honor of the slain conservative activist who was assassinated earlier this month at a Utah Valley University campus event in Orem, Utah. > Lee told Fox News, “In 2013, these protections were taken away. My legislation restores this safeguard under the name of an American martyr for freedom of speech and freedom of thought: Charlie Kirk.” > Lee’s legislation would prevent the USAGM, which is an apparatus of the State Department, from using the media it produces from being used to influence the American people. Does anyone really believe it will stop there? How long until the government goes after people who people who criticize israel?