NPR has identified close to 40 entities — inside, adjacent to and outside of the government — where DOGE and the Trump administration have turned their attention in recent weeks.
Some of them have already been effectively dismantled by DOGE, like the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), the site of a dramatic daylong standoff between USIP staffers and representatives of the cost-cutting initiative claiming to be new leadership.
Some have been targeted for elimination by the president in his budget proposal for next year, like AmeriCorps and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
Some of them aren’t government agencies at all and, like GAO, have rebuffed DOGE’s requests, such as the independent Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the private nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice.
And it’s not clear whether some of these actions are legal. On Monday, a federal judge blocked the DOGE-led takeover of USIP, ruling that the firing of board members, dismantling of operations and transfer of the institute’s headquarters are beyond Trump’s authority.
Nearly all of the meetings have been conducted by a small group of young staffers with no federal government experience and little apparent knowledge about what these entities do, according to more than a dozen lawsuits, documents shared with NPR and interviews with employees who were granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly and fear retaliation from the Trump administration.
This blatant overeach is sickening. This administration is doing irreparable harm to this country for the foreseeable future. I hope one day they are all brought to trial for the damage they have done, but I fear they will find a way to make themselves untuchable.
I hope they all get doxxed and either player two’d or at the very least can’t show their faces publicly anywhere ever again.
Cancer is like that.
Sic semper tyrranis.
This should be the rallying cry of the left.
I like the literal meaning of the words, but given the history of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin famously saying it and my personal experience with people who regularly use Latin phrases (outside of scientists, almost exclusively a bunch of snobby over educated dumbasses who can quote old dead white guys at length but somehow still aren’t sure if we’re in a constitutional crisis or not), I’d rather come up with something new that essentially means the same thing
