In a significant move by the Trump administration, employees of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) received ...

USIP has sought to fend off attempts by the Trump administration to take it over, arguing the institute is not legally a ...

The mass firings, in what anonymous employees characterized as a "Friday night massacre," affected somewhere between 200 and 300 employees.

Nearly all of the US Institute of Peace's staff were fired on March 28.

USIP's IT staff began taking steps to protect their data systems ... It regularly briefed decision-makers at the Pentagon and the executive branch on issues of foreign policy and national security.

A D.C. District Court Judge refused Tuesday to rule on DOGE’s efforts to transfer U.S. Institute for Peace’s assets to the General Services Administration, sidestepping calls from the institute’s ...

This ends the employment of almost everyone at the USIP building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C. The employees who remain active may include senior officials who are expected to help ...

USIP officials also barricaded themselves on the fifth floor, lowered window shades to block visibility and instructed staff via fliers to treat DOGE officials as trespassers, escalating the ...

Foote said in a court declaration filed Wednesday morning that he told the Inter-Con staff that they were trespassing. “They ignored this and proceeded to walk toward USIP’s gun safe,” he said.