From Vanity Fair:

"More than 40 years ago, Congress established the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) as an “independent, nonprofit, national institute” to “promote international peace and the resolution of conflicts.”

The Department of Government Efficiency just took it over.

“What has happened here today is an illegal takeover by elements of the executive branch of a private nonprofit,” USIP’s now-fired CEO George Moose told the Associated Press and others Monday, following a police standoff that ended in DOGE officials entering the building.

Moose said the building is not federally owned and that its employees do not work for the executive branch, putting its operations outside of DOGE’s purview. “Somehow, all of those arguments have not prevailed,” said Moose, who promised to bring legal action against DOGE, which he said “has broken into our building.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/doge-seizes-control-of-us-peace-institute