The Obama administration’s expenditure of tens of millions of dollars to spur recent immigrants to become citizens and vote this November isn’t the only evidence that taxpayer funds are possibly being used to favor the election of Hillary Clinton.

In fact, there’s even more direct evidence available by simply taking a look at taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) reporting that is rebroadcast domestically to Spanish-language viewers of Azteca America, the U.S. subsidiary of one of Mexico’s top television networks.

Such was the case during a recent report on the U.S. presidential campaign by VOA correspondent Gonzalo Abarca, who characterized the Republican presidential candidate as “having offended Mexicans, and in addition Latinos, calling them rapists and drug addicts” and also slammed Trump for his “bilious comments trying to erode Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.”

Abarca’s politically-charged report was aired during Azteca America’s principal national evening newscast. Presumably, Abarca’s reports for Azteca don’t always reveal who he works for, but in this report, it clearly does, as he signs off the report as “Gonzalo Abarca, Voice of America, Washington.”

The Voice of America is part of the United States’ massive “public diplomacy” apparatus and is funded to the tune of over $200 million per year by American taxpayers. One would expect the VOA to be more careful to avoid peddling any partisan talking points as “objective reporting” during a presidential election year, as well as adhere to its congressionally-mandated charter and established journalistic code to “avoid imbalance or bias in their broadcasts.”

Incidentally, up until just a few years ago, it would have been illegal for VOA material to be broadcast domestically. To prevent the United States Government from using the Voice of America as a domestic propaganda arm, shortly after its creation in the 1940s Congress passed the Smith-Mundt Act, which forbade the broadcast of VOA material inside the United States.

This changed during the Obama administration, in July 2013, when the National Defense Authorization Act repealed the Smith-Mundt Act. However, if VOA material such as this is now, in effect, being used and spread as domestic partisan propaganda, it may very well be high time to reinstate the old prohibition or one like it, to prevent such abuses.

Below is the transcript of the referenced report by the VOA, which aired during the August 26, 2016 national evening newscast of Azteca America, Hechos Nacional Tarde: