Federal Agency Fought Hardest to Block DOGE Investigation, Linked to Taliban [WATCH]

Elon Musk and members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identified the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) as the federal agency that most aggressively resisted their oversight efforts during a recent interview on Jesse Watters Primetime on Fox News.

As The Independent Journal Review reported, Musk, appointed by President Donald Trump in November to lead the DOGE initiative, appeared alongside several team members to outline the agency’s progress in targeting federal inefficiencies.

DOGE was created to eliminate waste, cut burdensome regulations, and streamline government operations.

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“The small agency called the United States Institute of Peace is definitely the agency we had the most fight at,” one DOGE team member said. “We actually went into the agency and found they had loaded guns inside of their headquarters.”

Musk added, “Any given company, any given organizational name is going to be kind of the opposite of the title.”

The DOGE team member then said:

“So it was, by far, the least peaceful agency that we’ve worked with, ironically.”

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The DOGE team disclosed that the Institute of Peace had spent taxpayer dollars on private jets and awarded a $130,000 contract to a former Taliban member.

According to the team, the contract was labeled as payment for “generic services,” with no clear explanation provided in agency records.

In response to a joking question from Watters about whether the funds went toward opium, a DOGE team member replied that the answer was unclear.

DOGE’s audit of the Institute of Peace began shortly after President Trump signed two executive orders to reduce the number of federal agencies.

One team member said, “When the country was founded, there were only four agencies. Today, there are over 400. So there’s been a 100x increase.”

According to DOGE, the audit quickly uncovered additional issues. “Just a few hours after we got into their headquarters, we found that their chief accountant had actually deleted over a terabyte of accounting records from several leaders,” a DOGE member said.

The deleted records were eventually recovered with the help of internal whistleblowers.

The DOGE team reported that the agency receives $55 million annually from Congress and claimed that any unspent funds were transferred to private accounts outside congressional oversight.

“They would sweep it into a private bank account, which had no congressional oversight,” the DOGE member explained. “And that’s what they would use to fund things like events at their headquarters and the private jets.”

Musk noted that DOGE has made significant progress in its first 100 days and that he intends to reduce his daily involvement while continuing to oversee operations in Washington two days a week.

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