Governing is hard, and there is no doubt that sometimes compromises must be made. That doesn’t mean Republicans should be compromising on State Department censorship of conservatives.

The continuing resolution to fund the government that failed Wednesday included a one-year extension of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center. As the Washington Examiner first revealed, the GEC was using taxpayer dollars to fund the “Global Disinformation Index,” which created advertising blacklists to pressure advertisers into cutting off conservative media outlets.