The emergency ruling came after DOGE staffers on Monday gained access with the help of police officers to USIP, an independent, nonprofit organization funded by the U.S. Congress and whose Washington headquarters sits across the street from the U.

The institute, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting peace, had sued President Trump and Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting team over the administration’s attempts to dismantle it.

The US government is set to vacate nearly 800 federal office spaces across the country in a drastic cost-cutting effort led by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Internal documents from the General Services Administration (GSA) reveal that hundreds of lease cancellations will take effect by mid-year,

DOGE is Elon Musk's ambitious effort to reform the federal government. Here's how the Department of Government Efficiency is upending Washington, DC.

Created by executive order though not an official government department (which would have to be created by an act of Congress), Musk's DOGE has embarked on an extensive exercise of mass firings, funding cuts and contract cancellations since President Donald Trump returned to office in January.