DOGE Reduced The Employees Of This Government Agency To Just One; Cost-Cutting Hits These Global Projects

DOGE’s cost-cutting measures have reduced the Inter-American Foundation’s workforce to a single employee, in line with Trump’s push to shrink federal bureaucracy. (Credit: Twitter / Camarote da República @camarotedacpi)

In line with President Trump's executive order to streamline federal bureaucracy, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced on 4th March that the Inter-American Foundation's workforce had been reduced to a single employee.

According to DOGE, led by Elon Musk, the independent federal agency previously employed 48 staff members, each earning an average salary of £102,213 ($131,000) per year. "The Inter-American Foundation—an agency primarily responsible for issuing foreign grants with a £47.1 million ($60 million) budget—has now been reduced to its statutory minimum of one active employee," DOGE stated in a post on X.