Will the US government tighten the conditions for German journalists working in the United States? A current dispute between American politicans and a German public broadcaster could further impact the deterioating conditions for foreign journalists in the US. This was enough to prompt Richard Grenell, former US ambassador to Germany, to threaten Thevessen with the revocation of his journalist visa for the US. The chairman of the German Journalists' Association (DJV), Mika Beuster, said in Berlin that 240 days is enough for a single research assignment, "but definitely not for long-term correspondent work." "We will be watching very closely to see to what extent German journalists can work in other countries," Wadephul said.