DOGE, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency, took over the U.S. Institute of Peace on Monday [17 Mar] after threatening its officials with criminal prosecution. Its president was removed from its headquarters with the assistance of the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the FBI and D.C. police.
DOGE Plays Hardball in U.S. Institute of Peace Takeover
ANGLO AMERICA, 24 Mar 2025
Karen DeYoung and Derek Hawkins | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service
U.S. attorney and FBI threatened criminal prosecution and enlisted D.C. police to enter the USIP building.
19 Mar 2025 – Following President Donald Trump’s Feb. 19 executive order targeting nonexecutive branch foreign aid and peacemaking agencies for elimination, agents of DOGE, the White House-based organization overseen by Elon Musk, have moved to take over entities both small and large.
In seizing control of the 40-year-old Washington institution, founded and funded directly by Congress and employing about 600 people here and overseas, DOGE emptied the building and installed DOGE agent Kenneth Jackson as acting USIP president. Jackson is also titled as a board member of several other far smaller agencies similarly emptied, and he was nominated by Trump as a senior official at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Amid the many sagas of DOGE activities over the past two months, the USIP situation marks an especially aggressive one. In response to a USIP lawsuit filed late Tuesday in D.C. District Court requesting a temporary restraining order and naming Trump, several members of his Cabinet and DOGE representatives as defendants, a hearing is scheduled Wednesday afternoon before Judge Beryl A. Howell.
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