The chief government of america Institute of Peace (USIP) says Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity left the nonprofit’s Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray, filled with water harm, rats, and roaches, in line with a brand new sworn assertion first reported by Courtroom Watch.
The assertion from the manager, George Moose, comes just some days after a federal choose 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 stated 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 stated on the time that DOGE employees had “damaged into” the USIP headquarters in Washington, even if the nonprofit just 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 quite a lot of what we name overseas help, and we’re a part of that household,” Moose stated on the time, referencing the Trump administration’s and DOGE’s dismantling of america Company for Worldwide Growth.
Moose initially stated the nonprofit’s headquarters gave the impression to be in respectable form at a press convention on Could 21, the place he mentioned the choose’s ruling. However sooner or later later, in line 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 choose’s ruling, the headquarters had been “primarily deserted for a lot of weeks” earlier than USIP regained management. He stated 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.
Workers additionally reported to Moose that the constructing’s car boundaries 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 doubtless water harm).”
Now Moose stated USIP has “engaged a non-public safety agency to protect the constructing and premises” and “taken over duty for the constructing’s upkeep.”
