Agents from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are accused of breaking into the nonprofit US Institute of Peace on Monday night as it continues to take a chainsaw to waste, fraud and abuse in Washington.
The organization’s CEO, George Moose, said, ‘DOGE has broken into our building’ after having been turned away on Friday.
‘President Trump signed an executive order to reduce USIP to its statutory minimum. After noncompliance, 11 board members were lawfully removed, and remaining board members appointed Kenneth Jackson acting president,’ a spokesperson for Donald Trump told DailyMail.com in a statement.
‘Rogue bureaucrats will not be allowed to hold agencies hostage. The Trump administration will enforce the President’s executive authority and ensure his agencies remain accountable to the American people.’
The US Institute of Peace says on its website that it’s a nonpartisan, independent organization ‘dedicated to protecting US interests by helping to prevent violent conflicts and broker peace deals abroad.’
The nonprofit says it was created by Congress in 1984 as an ‘independent nonprofit corporation,’ and it does not meet US Code definitions of ‘government corporation,’ ‘government-controlled corporation’ or ‘independent establishment.’
The institute has been in DOGE’s crosshairs after a February 19 executive order, titled Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, called for the ‘dramatic’ downsizing of the federal government.
The breach comes despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an independent agency.
