Most employees of the American Institute of Peace, a thinkank created and financed by the Congress, now taken up by the “Ministry of Elon Musk’s Government”, received notices of murder of their mass dismissal on Friday, the last stage of the reduction in the workforce of the Government of the Trump administration.
The emails, sent to personal accounts because most staff members had lost access to the organization’s system, began to go out around 9 p.m., according to people familiar with the question that spoke subject to anonymity due to the fear of reprisals.
A former senior official of the Institute said that among these savings were several of the human resources department and a handful of members of foreign staff who had until April 9 to return to the United States. The organization employs around 300 people.
The other regional vice-presidents working with staff in their region to return to the United States, according to an employee who has been affected.
An executive decree last month at Donald Trump targeted the Institute, which seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, and three other closure agencies. The members of the board of directors, who are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, and the president of the institute were dismissed. Later, there was a dead end because the employees prevented the members of Doge from entering. DOGE staff had partly access to the Washington police.
A trial has been committed, and the American district judge Beryl Howell reprimanded Doge representatives for their behavior, but has not restored the members of the board of directors or allowed employees to return to the workspace.
A spokesman for the White House, Anna Kelly, said in an email on Saturday that the institute “had failed to offer peace” and that Trump “executes his mandate to eliminate the bloating and save the dollars of taxpayers”.
The letter to the employees said that on Friday, “your job with us will conclude”, according to a long -standing employee who shared part of the communication. A second e-mail, obtained by the AP, said that the layoffs were in the direction of the president.
The workers were administered until April 7 to eliminate their office.
Mary Glantz, a former outdoor service officer who worked as principal advisor at the Institute, said that she was not surprised by late evening layoffs, calling it part of the Doge game book.
Glantz studied how Russia fomed conflicts in the world and analyzed the options to resolve them. She hoped that her research could be continued and used elsewhere. She said that the Institute plays a unique role because of its close objective in conflict resolution.
“We are the other tool in the toolbox,” she said. “We are doing this job so that the American soldiers do not have to fight these wars.”
George Fote, a former lawyer for the Institute, dismissed this month who is with one of the companies that provide a lawyer in the current trial, said lawyers consulted on Saturday to discuss any following steps. He said that employees were not part of the current trial, so they should deposit separate cases.
