DOGE staffers, flanked by D.C. police officers, forced their way into the U.S. Institute of Peace on Monday after a standoff with senior employees. The institute’s CEO, former U.S. Ambassador to Senegal George Moose, who was fired on Friday, condemned the move as an illegal takeover of a nonprofit group.

George Moose: “We had been talking to them for many weeks now in anticipation of just this possibility and also to remind them that we are a private nonprofit corporation in the District of Columbia and, therefore, not a federal agency. And therefore, the federal government has no entitlement to come in and take over our building.”

The entire board of the U.S. Institute of Peace was also removed except for Trump’s newly appointed members: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Defense University President Peter Garvin.