The U.S. State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), an agency tasked with fighting foreign propaganda, has been shut down after Republicans voted to cut its funding. The GEC, which employed around 120 people and had a budget of $61 million a year, was created in 2016. Its main goal was to combat disinformation from foreign governments and organizations. However, many conservatives criticized the agency for spreading its own form of propaganda and censoring voices at home.

The GEC...