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Trump administration guts board of US Institute of Peace. Group says DOGE arrives

  

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Via:  vic-eldred  •  14 hours ago  •  29 comments

By:   Story by MATTHEW LEE and CHRIS MEGERIAN

Trump administration guts board of US Institute of Peace. Group says DOGE arrives
White House spokesperson Anna Kelly pointed to USIP's "noncompliance" with Trump's order. After that, “11 board members were lawfully removed, and remaining board members appointed Kenneth Jackson acting president," she said. "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.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration fired most of the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace and sent its new leader into the Washington headquarters of the independent organization on Monday, in its latest effort  targeting agencies tied to foreign assistance work .

The remaining three members of the group's board — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Defense University President Peter Garvin — fired President and CEO George Moose on Friday, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press.

An executive order that President Donald Trump signed last month targeted the organization, which was created by Congress over 40 years ago, and others  for reductions .

Current USIP employees said staffers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency entered the building despite protests that the institute is not part of the executive branch. USIP called the police, whose vehicles were outside the building Monday evening.

USIP is a congressionally funded independent nonprofit that works to advance U.S. values in conflict resolution, ending wars and promoting good governance.

Moose vowed legal action, saying that “what has happened here today is an illegal takeover by elements of the executive branch of a private nonprofit.”

He said the institute's headquarters, located across the street from the State Department, is not a federal building. Speaking to reporters after leaving the building, Moose noted that “it was very clear that there was a desire on the part of the administration to dismantle a lot of what we call foreign assistance, and we are part of that family.”

The DOGE workers gained access after several unsuccessful attempts Monday and after having been turned away Friday, a senior U.S. Institute of Peace official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.

Trump targeted the organization and a few others in a  Feb. 19 executive order  that aims to shrink the size of the federal government. The administration has since moved to fire and cancel programs at some of those organizations, following its dismantling of the  U.S. Agency for International Development  and slashing of other agencies, including  the Education Department .

White House spokesperson Anna Kelly pointed to USIP's "noncompliance" with Trump's order.

After that, “11 board members were lawfully removed, and remaining board members appointed Kenneth Jackson acting president," she said. "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.”

Jackson had been seen earlier Monday trying to get into the nonprofit's building.

Moose said the organization had been speaking with DOGE since last month, trying to explain its independent status. Speaking of Trump, he said, “I can’t imagine how our work could align more perfectly with the goals that he has outlined: keeping us out of foreign wars, resolving conflicts before they drag us into those kinds of conflicts."

DOGE has expressed interest in the organization for weeks but had been rebuffed by lawyers who argued that the institute’s status protected it from the kind of reorganization that is occurring in other federal agencies.

On Friday, DOGE members arrived with two FBI agents but left after the institute's lawyer told them of USIP’s “private and independent status,” the organization said in a statement that day.

Chief of security Colin O’Brien said police on Monday helped DOGE members enter the building and that the private security team for the organization had its contract canceled.


The nonprofit says it was created by Congress in 1984 as an “independent nonprofit corporation,“ and it does not meet U.S. Code definitions of “government corporation,” “government-controlled corporation” or “independent establishment."

Also named in Trump's executive order were the U.S. African Development Foundation, a federal agency that  invests in African small businesses ; the Inter-American Foundation, a federal agency that invests in Latin America and the Caribbean; and the Presidio Trust, which oversees a national park site next to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

The African Development Foundation, which also unsuccessfully tried to keep DOGE staff from  entering its offices in Washington , went to court, but a  federal judge ruled  last week that removing most grants and most staff would be legal. The president of the Inter-American Foundation sued Monday to block her firing in February by the Trump administration.


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Vic Eldred
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1  seeder  Vic Eldred    14 hours ago

Congrats to Amy Gleason, Elon Musk, "Big Balls" and the entire team.

 
 
 
Dig
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1.1  Dig  replied to  Vic Eldred @1    12 hours ago

Yet another lawless overreach on an already very long list in just 2 months.

The Executive does not have unilateral authority to nullify things created by the Legislative. Expect this, along with pretty much everything else Trump has done so far, to be challenged in court.

Interestingly, after being turned away on their first attempt, they had to come back with armed force again. FBI agents this time, apparently Trump's new Brownshirts, after installing a couple of completely unqualified thugs (but loyal to him) in the top 2 leadership positions.

Tyranny, right before your eyes...and you celebrate it.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dig @1.1    12 hours ago
Tyranny,

You are 4 years late.

 
 
 
Dig
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1.1.2  Dig  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.1    11 hours ago

Trump did commit an act of tyranny 4 years ago – his little coup attempt. I'm not late, though. I was pointing it out then as well.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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1.1.3  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Dig @1.1.2    11 hours ago
Trump did commit an act of tyranny 4 years ago – his little coup attempt. I'm not late, though.

But your incorrect.  

 
 
 
Dig
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1.1.4  Dig  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @1.1.3    10 hours ago

About what?

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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1.1.5  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Dig @1.1.4    10 hours ago

Read what I quoted.

 
 
 
Igknorantzruls
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1.1.6  Igknorantzruls  replied to  Dig @1.1.4    10 hours ago

About what we ALL saw plain as day, yet Trump just LIED it all away

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.7  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @1.1.3    10 hours ago
his little coup attempt.

PROVE IT

 
 
 
Dig
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1.1.8  Dig  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.7    10 hours ago

You know damn well that Trump tried to subvert the 2020 election and stay in power even though he lost.

Denying that is sick and perverse.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.9  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dig @1.1.8    10 hours ago

No, I do not.

I demand proof.

 
 
 
devangelical
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1.1.10  devangelical  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.9    10 hours ago
I demand proof.

I'd wait a few more months, POS/POTUS hasn't destroyed all of it yet ...

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.11  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  devangelical @1.1.10    9 hours ago

We deal with facts here.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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1.1.12  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Dig @1.1.8    9 hours ago

And you know damn well that it was investigate and your claim was found false.  Even with the Democrats tampering with the evidence.

 
 
 
Igknorantzruls
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1.1.13  Igknorantzruls  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @1.1.12    9 hours ago
And you know damn well that it was investigate and your claim was found false

Bullsheet! The un Supreme court held up the proceedings for NO reason except to hold up and delay the proceedings and give Trump (the only POTUS that ever needed all this immunity) enough delayed time so as the EVIDENCE UNDER OATH never was heard by the herd mentality absurd and word has it, they believe everyuthing the LIAR in Chief has to say

 
 
 
Igknorantzruls
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1.1.14  Igknorantzruls  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.11    9 hours ago

Since when ...?

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.15  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Igknorantzruls @1.1.14    9 hours ago

Since I first sat down at my keyboard and lit up a Camel.

 
 
 
Igknorantzruls
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1.1.17  Igknorantzruls  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.15    8 hours ago
and lit up a Camel.

I lit up a camel once,

right on her toe, but it still doesn't make wrong the right way to go....

 
 
 
Dig
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1.1.18  Dig  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.9    8 hours ago
No, I do not.
I demand proof.

You saw it happen with your own eyes, beginning the very night of the election, before all the votes were even counted, when he first declared that he was the 'real' winner.

You have the Eastman Memo. You have the recording with Raffensperger. You have all the other testimony from the Jan 6 hearings.

Again, denying it is sick and perverse.

 
 
 
Dig
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1.1.19  Dig  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @1.1.12    8 hours ago
And you know damn well that it was investigate and your claim was found false.  Even with the Democrats tampering with the evidence.

Good lord. 

Vic is apparently smoking a Camel. What the hell are you smoking?

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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1.1.20  JohnRussell  replied to  Dig @1.1.18    8 hours ago
Again, denying it is sick and perverse.

This is one of the big reasons I put all the conservatives here on ignore. 

 
 
 
Igknorantzruls
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1.1.21  Igknorantzruls  replied to  Dig @1.1.19    8 hours ago
What the hell are you smoking?

probably better shit than i'm smoking!

Smoking a Camel just sounds very barbaric mid eastern m,orality malaise, 

thus Y i prefer the camels hoof to tow the straight line, i drive home like a point on a banked tuirn not FDIC insured for catastrophic loss 47 is for US, and the world as A whole, big mess he is and causes, cause he has been GOP enabled and now they 'CAN"T" stop the monster THEY have allowed, so silently aloud, they make America Not Proud, and that should never be allowed....

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.22  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dig @1.1.18    5 hours ago

I also have him stepping aside just like Hillary Clinton did when she claimed that she was robbed.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.23  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dig @1.1.19    5 hours ago

Vic is simply celebrating the life of our greatest news reporter.

It was he who smoked 65 Camels a day and lost a lung to it.

He would be rolling over in his grave if he could see today's leftist lying media.

 
 
 
Split Personality
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1.1.24  Split Personality  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.23    22 minutes ago
It was he who smoked 65 Camels a day and lost a lung to it.

That's called an addiction.  Not really a terribly smart thing to do to one's own body.

He would be rolling over in his grave if he could see today's leftist lying media.

That's called confirmation bias.

 
 
 
Dig
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1.1.25  Dig  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.22    10 minutes ago
I also have him stepping aside just like Hillary Clinton did when she claimed that she was robbed.

Hillary did not conspire to subvert the Republic. Trump did, only "stepping aside" after failing to coerce Pence into breaking his oath to the Constitution by rejecting valid Biden electors on Jan 6 and naming him the victor instead, or by "sending it back to the states."

There is absolutely no comparison.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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2  JohnRussell    9 hours ago

Cigarette smoking causes cancer.

 
 
 
Split Personality
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2.1  Split Personality  replied to  JohnRussell @2    8 hours ago

I have witnessed it myself.  When the lung cancer spreads to the brain and reality changes from the patient's perspective.

Alternative facts...alternative realities.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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2.1.1  JohnRussell  replied to  Split Personality @2.1    4 hours ago

I had a brother in law who died of lung cancer at age 64.  He always had a cigarette in his mouth. 

Smoking is a ticking time bomb. Doesnt always go off but usually does. 

 
 

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