Overview

• The appeals court reversed a federal judge’s injunction in late June, enabling the Trump administration’s second round of USIP layoffs.
• Weekend emails from the White House and remnants of DOGE terminated 200 to 300 staffers at USIP’s Washington headquarters.
• Only a handful of employees remain to wind down operations at the congressionally chartered nonprofit founded in 1984.
• Peacebuilding programs in South Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan have been suspended due to the sudden workforce depletion.
• Former USIP spokeswoman Liz Callihan condemned the move as constitutional overreach that inflicts mental anguish and disrupts vital conflict-zone work.