The chief govt of america 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 injury, rats, and roaches, in keeping with a brand new sworn assertion first reported by Court docket Watch.
The assertion from the manager, George Moose, comes just some days after a federal decide dominated 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 mentioned he’ll proceed to advise the administration.
DOGE began its takeover of USIP in mid-March after a standoff that noticed the nonprofit name the police on Musk’s authorities employees. Moose mentioned on the time that DOGE employees had “damaged into” the USIP headquarters in Washington, even though the nonprofit isn’t a part of the manager department and isn’t topic to the White Home’s whims.
“It was very clear that there was a need on the a part of the administration to dismantle a whole lot of what we name international help, and we’re a part of that household,” Moose mentioned on the time, referencing the Trump administration’s and DOGE’s dismantling of america Company for Worldwide Growth.
Moose initially mentioned the nonprofit’s headquarters gave the impression to be in first rate form at a press convention on Might 21, the place he mentioned the decide’s ruling. However at some point later, in keeping with the assertion, members of Moose’s employees 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 “primarily deserted for a lot of weeks” earlier than USIP regained management. He mentioned that DOGE had didn’t “keep 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 boundaries have 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 instructed recommend doubtless water injury).”
Now Moose mentioned USIP has “engaged a non-public safety agency to protect the constructing and premises” and “taken over duty for the constructing’s upkeep.”
