Employees at the United States Institute of Peace received termination letters Friday evening as the Trump administration continues to reimagine the role of the US abroad and dramatically dismantle key parts of the federal government through the Department of Government Efficiency.

The Trump administration fired nearly the entire staff of the U.S. Institute of Peace headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Friday, according to multiple reports. The mass firings, in what anonymous employees characterized as a “Friday night massacre” to the Washington Post,

The administration of the President of the US fires most of the employees at the US Institute of Peace. Before that, the organization's president was removed, and an agent of Elon Musk's DOGE service took the position,

President Donald Trump says he's considering ways to serve a third term. “I'm not joking,” he says in an NBC News interview.