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Cavanaugh goes on to estimate that the building has a “fair market value” of $500 million.
In another letter included in the lawsuit’s docket dated March 29, Project 2025 architect and Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought writes to Ehikian to approve his request “to set the amount of reimbursement at no cost for the transfer of the United States Institute of Peace’s (USIP) headquarters building.”
To state this plainly: DOGE forced out the directors and staff of a nonexecutive agency, installed one of its own GSA staffers as president, and that person is now attempting to hand the institute’s $500 million headquarters over to the agency he came from, at zero cost.
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A newspaper headline soon after the raids declared the “un-German Spirit” (or undeutschen Geist) of the institute. It was forced to shut down. The Nazis took control of the buildings for their own purposes.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
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I wouldn’t celebrate just yet. He’s stepping down because if he didn’t, he’d have to become a regular government employee instead of a special government employee, which would subject him to mandatory financial disclosures. I suspect he’s not actually going away. He’ll probably take a vacation, and then return as a special advisor again with a different title. Plus, his people will still be there, and his influence over Trump and Republican politics definitely won’t go away.
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Yup, this exactly.
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Woo hoos duly removed.
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He’s just leaving to spend more time bribing voters.
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It’s sad that we’re all so cynical.
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Yeah, just saw this on ABC News
Asked if he wanted to keep Elon Musk in the White House after his 130-day term as a special government employee expires, Trump said Musk would return at some point.
“Well, I think he’s an amazing. But I also think he’s got a big company to run. And so, at some point he’s going to be going back. He wants to,” Trump said.
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I was hopeful and happy. Now just meh.
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This might be the weirdest Scare in history.
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What are the odds that fewer employees at the IRS will make it easier for someone to make the scope of tax breaks associated with these “losses” public?
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Remember how horrified they all were when Biden increased the number of IRS employees for the specific reason of catching more tax scofflaws?
These guys aren’t subtle.
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They’re subtle as a flying putin.
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Defenestrated?
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