The chief government of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency left the nonprofit’s Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray, filled with water injury, rats, and roaches, in accordance with a brand new sworn assertion first reported by Court Watch.
The assertion from the chief, George Moose, comes only a few 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 staff. Moose stated on the time that DOGE workers had “damaged into” the USIP headquarters in Washington, although the nonprofit shouldn’t be a part of the chief department and isn’t topic to the White House’s whims.
“It was very clear that there was a need on the a part of the administration to dismantle a variety of what we name international help, and we’re a part of that household,” Moose stated on the time, referencing the Trump administration’s and DOGE’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development.
Moose initially stated the nonprofit’s headquarters seemed to be in respectable form at a press convention on May 21, the place he mentioned the choose’s ruling. But someday later, in accordance with the assertion, members of Moose’s workers 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 “basically 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.
Staff additionally reported to Moose that the constructing’s car 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 advised recommend doubtless water injury).”
Now Moose stated USIP has “engaged a personal safety agency to protect the constructing and premises” and “taken over accountability for the constructing’s upkeep.”
