When staff from the Department of Government Efficiency, accompanied by an Official from the US State Department tried to enter the US Africa Development Foundation (USADF), earlier this week, they were DENIED entry.
Federal marshals on Thursday escorted officials from the Department of Government Efficiency into the USADF, a day after its employees refused entry to the Trump administration’s budget-slashing unit and Pete Marocco, the State Department official in charge of foreign aid.
Once inside, security officials were directed to change the federal agency’s locks, according to a security official at the scene. Mr. Marocco was seen entering the building separately from DOGE officials, according to video posted online, and the security official said he was briefly in the building.
Thursday’s takeover of the small foundation, which has about 55 employees and an annual budget of about $45 million, came after a weeks-long standoff between administration officials and the foundation’s leaders. The leaders refused to succumb to the efforts of Mr. Marocco and the Department of Government of Efficiency team, overseen by Elon Musk, to assume control of their functions, dismiss staff members and install Mr. Marocco as the acting leader.
Given what the DOGE teams found in the US Agency for International Development (USAID) earlier this year, one wonders what skeletons of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse are hiding in the computers of the Africa version?
