April 4 (Reuters) - Members of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team arrived at Peace Corps headquarters in Washington, the agency told Reuters, a signal it could become the latest U.S. government agency to face job cuts.
“Staff from the Department of Government Efficiency are currently working at Peace Corps headquarters and the agency is supporting their requests,” the organization said in a statement on Friday.
The Peace Corps, which sends volunteers across the globe to help countries with education, health and economic projects, had so far remained under the radar amid the cost-slashing drive of the Musk-led DOGE.
The purpose of the visit was not immediately clear, but the arrival of DOGE staff at a federal agency is often followed by layoffs. Fridays have become some of the most nerve-racking times for mass firings of civil servants since President Donald Trump took office on January 20 and established DOGE.
DOGE did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
With an annual budget of more than $400 million, the Peace Corps has long been popular with Democrats and Republicans.
Congress has a bipartisan Peace Corps caucus. In 1983 then-President Ronald Reagan, a Republican, 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.”
The MaGAt brown shirts have arrived.
Lock the doors. Lose the keys. Forget passwords. Take down and move names/signs. Don’t communicate anything to them. They are not congressionally-approved!
Shoot doge agents for trespassing
There we go, thats what I’ve been waiting for.
They are totally unauthorized by any legitimate government agency. They are essentially pirates, and if they tried to force their way past the lobby of any government agency without a warrant, they should be immediately shot by security.
How amazing would it be if the first shots came from the Peace Corp?
“Staff from the Department of Government Efficiency are currently working at Peace Corps headquarters and the agency is supporting their requests,” the organization said in a statement on Friday.
AKA Obeying in advance.
“This time it’ll be different - we are already efficient, surely working with them will show them how cooperative and valuable we are.”
Cowards and collaborators. The Peace Corps, ironically, apparently supports fascism.
They were just following orders
Now people understand that America’s heart has clogged arteries and is heading towards a widow maker infarction. I hope they don’t strand a bunch of volunteers overseas by canceling their projects and firing support staff, but that’s been the norm so far.
heart attack from too many hamberders
and cofvefe
and lurchbernales
