In a weekend email from the Department of Government Efficiency, all United States Institute of Peace employees learned that they had been or will be fired, in what a former spokesperson called a repeat of past attacks on the institute.
Liz Callihan is that former spokesperson, she said that all but roughly 200 staff had been let go Saturday, with some employees remaining to “close-out activities and wind down.”
Saturday’s purge of the more than 40-year-old institute by DOGE comes two weeks after a federal appeals court stayed a federal judge ruling that had blocked a Trump administration takeover of USIP.
The original federal court ruling from May responded to attempts by Trump and DOGE in March to fire 10 of USIP’s board members and install a DOGE employee as an acting president of the institute.
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