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DOGE arrives at Peace Corps HQ, signaling possible cuts on the horizon

2025-04-06

[FoxBusiness] 'Staff from the Department of Government Efficiency are currently working at Peace Corps headquarters and the agency is supporting their requests,' the agency said

The Department of Government Efficiency, which is led by Elon Musk, arrived Friday at U.S. Peace Corps headquarters in Washington, D.C., suggesting it could be the latest target of the Trump administration's efforts to downsize the federal workforce.

"Staff from the Department of Government Efficiency are currently working at Peace Corps headquarters and the agency is supporting their requests," the agency said in a statement to Reuters.

The Peace Corps, established in 1961 by then-President John F. Kennedy, sends volunteers around the world to help countries with projects focused on education, health and economics. Since then, more than 240,000 Americans have served as Peace Corps volunteers. The agency is widely viewed as one of the most visible tools used by the U.S. government to promote global influence.

The purpose of DOGE's visit was not immediately clear, but the arrival of DOGE staff at a federal agency is often followed by layoffs.

The Peace Corps, which has an annual budget of more than $400 million, has long been popular with both Democrats and Republicans. There is a bipartisan Peace Corps caucus in Congress.

In 1983, then-President Ronald Reagan said: "By the example of these Peace Corps volunteers, people throughout the world can understand that America’s heart is strong, and her heart is good."

My best friend in high school talked about joining the Peace Corps after university. She wanted to teach Appalachian hill folk scientific farming, even though she had studied English lit. at a prestigious Northeastern lib arts college, and her entire farming experience was seeing her mother grow tomatoes and basil in their suburban garden. Thank goodness she never followed through with it — nth generation subsistence farmers were not likely to listen to someone as ignorant as she on the subject. Had she really wanted to do good instead of feeding her ego, she would have donated a few years to adult literacy classes in the Appalachias, a thing desperately needed and that she would have done well.

Peace Corps staff had been told by the agency's leadership to expect members of DOGE to arrive on Friday afternoon and work through the weekend, according to Reuters.

President Donald Trump has already taken several steps since returning to the White House in January to eliminate key pillars of America's soft power, including efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Institute of Peace and government-funded broadcasters such as Voice of America.

Roughly 130 employees at the Wilson Center, a non-partisan foreign policy think tank in Washington, D.C., were placed on leave after DOGE began targeting the organization this week, according to The New York Times..

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