The chief government of the USA Institute of Peace (USIP) says Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity left the nonprofit’s Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray, stuffed with water harm, rats, and roaches, in keeping with a new sworn statement first reported by Court Watch.
The assertion from the manager, George Moose, comes just some days after a federal decide ruled that DOGE’s takeover of the nonprofit was unlawful. And this week, Musk has claimed he’s stepping away from DOGE, though he and President Trump have stated he’ll proceed to advise the administration.
DOGE started its takeover of USIP in mid-March after a standoff that noticed the nonprofit name the police on Musk’s authorities staff. Moose stated on the time that DOGE workers had “damaged into” the USIP headquarters in Washington, even if the nonprofit is just not a part of the manager department and isn’t topic to the White Home’s whims.
“It was very clear that there was a want on the a part of the administration to dismantle quite a lot of what we name international help, and we’re a part of that household,” Moose stated on the time, referencing the Trump administration’s and DOGE’s dismantling of the USA Company for Worldwide Growth.
Moose initially said the nonprofit’s headquarters seemed to be in respectable form at a press convention on Might 21, the place he mentioned the decide’s ruling. However someday later, in keeping with the assertion, members of Moose’s workers spent a day surveying the constructing and documenting the issues they discovered.
Moose wrote in his assertion that, forward of the decide’s ruling, the headquarters had been “basically deserted for a lot of weeks” earlier than USIP regained management. He stated that DOGE had did not “preserve and safe the constructing,” together with “proof of rats and roaches.”
“Vermin weren’t an issue previous to March 17, 2025, when USIP was actively utilizing and sustaining the constructing,” Moose wrote.
Employees additionally reported to Moose that the constructing’s automobile obstacles had been poorly maintained and that they noticed water leaks and “lacking ceiling tiles in a number of locations within the constructing (which I’ve been advised counsel possible water harm).”
Now Moose stated USIP has “engaged a personal safety agency to protect the constructing and premises” and “taken over duty for the constructing’s upkeep.”
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