US Institute of Peace Staff in the United States fired while Trump is looking for the end of non -profit

Almost all the members of the staff of the United States Institute of Peace in the United States were fired on Friday, a strong escalation of the Trump administration and the efforts of the Doge team of Elon Musk to eliminate the independent non -profit funded by the government, according to the current and former staff members obtained by the New York Times.

The late night shots of about 100 workers of the organization inflicted a serious blow since Trump officials tried to exercise control over non -profit and dismantle it. At the beginning of this month, the administration and team of Mr. Musk gained access to the institute’s building in a Dramatic rendering of the accountswith the help of private safety and local law enforcement agencies.

The White House did not answer questions that the administration had planned to completely eliminate the institute, created by Congress 41 years ago to support diplomatic solutions to global conflicts. But a spokesman suggested that President Trump has not seen any purpose for the work of the Institute.

“President Trump concluded the era of wars forever and has established peace in his first term, and is performing his mandate to eliminate swelling and save taxpayers dollars,” said the spokesperson, Anna Kelly, in a note on Saturday. “Taxpayers do not want to spend $ 50 million a year in a” research institute “financed with public funds that has not been able to provide peace.”

Dozens of staff members based in the United States received an e-mail late at night at their personal addresses from a head of human resources that told them that their work had ended starting from Friday. The Times examined the E -mail, who asked the staff members to sign a separation agreement with the restrictions on the search for a legal appeal on their fires.

The Trump administration targeted for the first time the Institute in A Executive order of February This requested the work of the institute and his staff to be reduced to his “minimum presence and function required by law”.

According to the court documents in a case presented this month contesting the acquisitionGeorge Moose, a former interim president of the institute who was ousted this month, said he learned in a February meeting with Trump officials that the administration defined the minimum of staff as only a board of directors and a president.

The dozen international staff of the Institute were not included in the fires, which are based in Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Africa and four high management officials who supervise these regions, according to the current and ex staff. Last Wednesday, a doge employee sent an e-mail to regional managers stating that the team supported by Trump installed at the Institute aimed to transfer international staff by April 9th.

The date of April 9 suggested that the administration’s efforts to eliminate the institution were increasing. According to the staff who have been informed of the meetings, two leaders of the institute met in recent weeks with Mr. Jackson as a way to mediate between the two parts after the acquisition of the administration of the building and the systems have left the employees locked by their EE -employment offices.

But on Saturday, one of those officials, Terry Jones, who previously was the leader of human resources for the Institute, published on LinkedIn which was “unexpectedly” in search of a new job. The and -mail with termination letters that the staff received on Friday have been signed by a new human resources manager.

Many members of the Institute staff have declared that they did not intend to sign the separation agreement and were exploring their legal options to recover the work, above all because they felt ousted by a president who has Removed traditional diplomacy The Institute supports and has left to open the possibility of using military force in negotiations with allies.

“The dismissal of the employees of the United States Institute of Peace in the darkness of the night is inconceivable and deeply worrying,” said George Foote, a lawyer who previously represented the institute and that is helping to lead the cause against the Trump administration. “The employees of the Institute are strongly dedicated to their important work and do not deserve to be treated with such lack of respect.”

While some federal workers have been restored in judicial decisions after the doge cuts, the favorable judgments of the judges have not necessarily prevented Mr. Musk’s team to send agencies “In the wooden chipper.”

Although the current and former leaders of the institute discussed in a cause this month that non -profit is not a federal agency, it was not enough To convince a federal judge to temporarily block the acquisition of the Institute. The Trump administration continues to insist that the institution is part of the executive branch and falls within the authority of the president.

Mary Glantz, who was Senior Councilor at the Institute for Russian and European affairs before being fired on Friday, said that while his work for the Institute approached her to other government agencies, had a distinct value.

“I fell in love with work because it was a possibility of creatively thinking about how to focus exclusively on the question of peace,” said Mrs. Glantz. “It is not something that no other part of our national security system is really exclusively concentrated.”