EXCLUSIVE — A State Department-backed group and a top Republican lawmaker are butting heads over a congressional report that accused the entity of working with “censorship” activists, leading to Congress demanding fresh documents, the Washington Examiner has learned.

The National Endowment for Democracy, a nonprofit group that receives most of its funding through congressional appropriations, was faulted in a House Small Business Committee report earlier this month for flouting its mandate to work internationally. That is because, in the telling of Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX), the panel’s chairman, the NED linked itself to censorious activity in the United States through its funding of the Global Disinformation Index, a British group blacklisting conservative media outlets, and other programs aiming to thwart alleged “disinformation” and “misinformation.”