A judge had blocked the president’s push to close down Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a federally financed news organization originally created to counter Soviet propaganda.

The U.S. Agency for Global Media cannot “force RFE/RL to shut down,” the judge wrote, “even if the President has told them to do so.”

"We must not cede ground to our adversaries at a time when threats to America are on the rise," Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty CEO Stephen Capus writes