In a significant move by the Trump administration, employees of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) received ...

The mass firings, in what anonymous employees characterized as a "Friday night massacre," affected somewhere between 200 and 300 employees.

USIP's IT staff began taking steps to protect their data systems ... It regularly briefed decision-makers at the Pentagon and the executive branch on issues of foreign policy and national security.

Nearly all of the US Institute of Peace's staff were fired on March 28.

Staff members at the U.S. Institute of Peace ... President Trump signed an executive order in February aimed at dismantling the USIP. USIP has about 300 employees and a budget of roughly $55 ...

While overseas staff have not yet received ... government’s attempts to exert power over USIP raised questions about “big constitutional issues about basic American freedoms ...

USIP staff argue the executive branch has no authority to shut them down or freeze their funding, as the think tank is not a federal agency and is directly funded by Congress. “We have been ...

This ends the employment of almost everyone at the USIP building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C. The employees who remain active may include senior officials who are expected to help ...

USIP officials also barricaded themselves on the fifth floor, lowered window shades to block visibility and instructed staff via fliers to treat DOGE officials as trespassers, escalating the ...

Foote said in a court declaration filed Wednesday morning that he told the Inter-Con staff that they were trespassing. “They ignored this and proceeded to walk toward USIP’s gun safe,” he said.

Another showed a collection of letters lying on the ground after the advisory board’s staff apparently ripped down a USIP logo from ... which works on issues across Latin America and the ...