"When DOGE operatives arrived at the USIP offices in the spring they came in like a "strike team," Foote told the audience at WIRED's Big Interview event on Thursday in San Francisco. The DOGE team, Foote said, left behind a "half-pound of weed"-more probably, a fellow panelist noted, a half-ounce-and ultimately seemed to have "no idea what to do with the place.""
"The Trump administration's interest in the independent agency dates back to a February 19 executive order declaring the agency "unnecessary" and calling for it to be eliminated. In March, the administration fired the 10 voting board members of the USIP, and according to court filings, tried to enter the headquarters but were turned away. In court documents, lawyers for the agency detailed a series of attempts by DOGE to enter the $500 million building before its operatives eventually succeeded."
George Foote remembers operatives from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) arriving at the United States Institute of Peace headquarters like a strike team. DOGE operatives left behind drugs and appeared to have no plan for the organization. Foote described DOGE as "the brass knuckles on an authoritarian fist" and said Musk escalated its destructiveness. The Trump administration issued an executive order calling USIP unnecessary, fired its 10 voting board members, and made repeated attempts to enter the $500 million headquarters. A judge ruled that DOGE and the government lacked the right to seize USIP and its building.
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