Kevin Kosar: When policy advocacy slips into propaganda

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Kevin Kosar: When policy advocacy slips into propaganda

Agency employees traditionally refrain from advocating particular policies, yet the billion dollars the government spends annually on public affairs activities...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

December 2, 2016 9:13 am

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Kevin Kosar, senior fellow and governance project director, R Street Institute

Agency employees traditionally refrain from advocating particular policies, yet the billion dollars the government spends annually on public affairs activities sometimes strays into propaganda. That's according to analysis by the right-of-center think tank, R Street Institute. Kevin Kosar, senior fellow and governance project director at the R Street Institute, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.