DOGE plays hardball in U.S. Institute of Peace takeover – The Washington Post

DOGE plays hardball in U.S. Institute of Peace takeover – The Washington Post
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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.

DOGE, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency, took over the U.S. Institute of Peace on Monday 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.

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.