DOGE employees left behind weed, rats, roaches after taking over U.S. Institute of Peace

After taking over the United States Institute of Peace, the Department of Government Efficiency — known as DOGE — employees allegedly left behind weed and cockroaches and rats.

DOGE and its staffers took over the institute after it attempted to fire all of the institute’s workers and forced them out of the building in March, according to The Daily Beast.

The building was later abandoned by DOGE, still filled with the food left behind by the institute’s employees, after a legal battle forced them to vacate it.

“When the USIP’s rightful leadership returned to their building for the first time in two months on May 22, they found water damage and evidence of rats and cockroaches in the building—problems they’d never had before, USIP’s Acting President and CEO George Moose said in a sworn statement,” The Daily Beast reported.

Daniel Knowles, the Economist reporter who broke the news about the trashed institute post-DOGE, posted a picture from allegedly within the building where institute staffers found buds of weed.

According to the official USA website, the institute “promotes research, policy analysis, education, and training on international peace and conflict resolution in an effort to prevent and resolve violent conflicts, and to promote post-conflict stability.”

DOGE, The Daily Beast said, found that it was “unnecessary.”

Upon taking over the institute, DOGE went on “to wipe out USIP’s IT systems, shred its documents, seize its funding, and take down the USIP website—including all of the research the agency had conducted over the past 40 years, one of its employees told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.”

Since the institute’s workforce came back into power, their official website came back online at usip.org.

They remarked on the website that they are “working to restore full access to our online analytical, educational and training resources and hope to make them available in the coming days.”