Musk’s DOGE Orders FTC Staff to Move to USAID Offices

Feb. 28, 2025, 3:38 AM UTC

Staff at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington were told Wednesday that they must leave their current offices in the coming months and move into the building being vacated by the US Agency for International Development, according to people familiar with the matter.

The surprise order, the people said, came from the Department of Government Efficiency, the Elon Musk-led team that President Donald Trump has charged with shrinking the federal workforce.

The people were granted anonymity to discuss the decision.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) headquarters in Washington, DC, earlier in Feb.
Photographer: Jason C. Andrew/Bloomberg

The majority of the antitrust and consumer protection agency’s 1,300 employees work out of a Washington building that ...

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