To do this, the Biden administration needs to boost the US’s public diplomacy apparatus, from the broadcasting networks of the USAGM to the diplomats who facilitate educational and cultural exchanges in the State Department and American embassies abroad with shrinking staffs and diminished resources. By dismantling USIA, burying some public diplomacy functions like educational exchanges and embassy public affairs offices in the State Department and creating an unwieldy new agency, first known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors and now as USAGM, to manage international broadcasting, the country fractured political support for public diplomacy at home.