Personnel from the Department of Government Efficiency, accompanied by DC police officers, gained access to the US Institute of Peace Monday after being turned away last week.

The Trump administration has fired most of the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace and sent its new leader into the Washington headquarters of the independent organization.

DOGE said its staffers and acting U.S. Institute of Peace president Kenneth Jackson entered USIP's D.C. headquarters with a police escort on Monday evening amid an apparent standoff. The big picture: Rep.

The order affects workers at six federal agencies, plus workers who had already been granted relief through an earlier ruling.

Filings in federal court in Maryland provide the fullest accounting yet of mass firings of probationary workers at 18 agencies, which were ruled illegal.

The government claimed it was not bound by the judge's order to block flights carrying gang members to El Salvador because it wasn't in writing.

Administration officials said they expect the fight over using the wartime act to ultimately head to the Supreme Court.

A federal judge on Monday was incredulous at the contention by the Trump administration that his directive to turn around deportation flights wasn't binding because it was made verbally