DOGE employees, with the aid of a master key and DC Metropolitan Police Department officers, finally gained control of the massive office building in Foggy Bottom on Monday, ending a standoff by US Institute of Peace bureaucrats barricaded in their offices. On Monday evening, DOGE employees accompanied by MPD officers and high-ranking administration officials stormed the building using a master key provided by the building security service, precipitating a brief scuffle before the building was liberated.
The incident began on February 19, when President Trump signed an executive order firing the head of the USIP, replacing him with a State Department official, and ordering the agency wound down to its “statutory minimum.” The chairman of USIP’s board, George Moose, determined that President Trump did not have the authority to take over the agency….
