(18 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington – 17 March 2025
1. Person tries to key into USIP building while being pursued by new acting leader Kenneth Jackson
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington – 17 March 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) George Moose, Ousted President and CEO of USIP:
“People from DOGE are in the building now, they’re here. They had come before, we had communicated with them before, going all the way back to February the 24th, we had conversations with them in which we sought to explain our purpose, our status, as a non executive branch agency created by Congress.”
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington – 17 March 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (English) George Moose, Ousted President and CEO of USIP:
“Look, we’ve been aware of this now for some time, going all the way back to the early days with what happened to USAID. Because it was very clear that there was a desire within the administration to dismantle a lot of what we call foreign assistance, and we are part of that family, right? US Institute was created back in 1984 by an act of Congress to assist in resolving conflicts and preventing conflicts and building peace around the world. So, we are part of that constellation. We are, as you well know, not the only ones who have been targeted with that kind of reduction.”
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington – 17 March 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) George Moose, Ousted President and CEO of USIP:
“This is not a government building. This building is a private building owned by the US Institute of Peace. US Institute of Peace is not an executive branch agency, department, or entity. It is a separate, independent corporation registered in the District of Columbia. The employees of our building are not federal employees, executive branch employees, they are employees of the institute. We have our own separate board. We have our own bypass authority to go directly to Congress in order to get our money. And somehow all of those arguments have not prevailed in the conversations we’ve been having with DOGE, with OMB and with others.”
++BLACK FRAMES++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington – 17 March 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) George Moose, Ousted President and CEO of USIP:
“This building, really was built, not just as a platform for the work that we do, it was built as a symbol of the aspiration of the American people to be peace builders in the world. That’s why it’s as beautiful as it is. And I have to believe that in the long term that purpose, that mission, will be reaffirmed and that we will in one way or another be allowed to continue.”
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington – 17 March 2025
6. Person tries to key into USIP building while being pursued by new acting leader Kenneth Jackson and others
STORYLINE:
The Trump administration has fired most of the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace and sent its new leader into the Washington headquarters of the independent organization.
A document obtained by The Associated Press shows that the remaining three members of the group’s board fired President and CEO George Moose on Friday.
Current USIP employees said staffers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency entered the building despite protests that the nonprofit is not part of the executive branch.
Police cars were outside the building Monday evening.
Moose said that “DOGE has broken into our building.”
USIP helps prevent violent conflicts and broker peace deals abroad.
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