Elon Musk has seemingly left DOGE with a bang after reports reveal the 'shocking' items left by employees of the department after leaving a key government building they had 'unlawfully' taken over.
More has been said about what workers in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been up to than how they've been working during US President Donald Trump's second term so far, yet it's almost as shocking when you dive into the conditions under now-departed leader Elon Musk.
Musk made a grand showing of working incredibly long hours once he officially took charge of the controversial department, as employees were allegedly working around 120 hours across every day of the week, so much so that a company even sent over futuristic 'sleep pods' so workers wouldn't have to go home.
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Musk called this their 'super power' in relation to the more balanced working life of a typical bureaucrat, although doctors have suggested that working conditions like these are heavily linked to a premature death.
New reports from the Telegraph now indicate that DOGE workers have left a mess in an office building they had 'unlawfully' commandeered, and the details regarding the specific undisposed items will likely shock you.
What items did DOGE employees leave in the office?
Cleaners in the US Institute of Peace (Usip) offices, which DOGE employees had taken over earlier this year, revealed that the building was full of cockroaches and rodents, and there was seemingly marijuana and empty beer bottles lying around too.
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Colin O'Brien, Usip head of security, also detailed that there were hundreds of laptops found in the offices that had been discarded by DOGE workers, and these were 'haphazardly' stacked on top of each other. In addition, chargers for the laptops were found in the bins.
O'Brien called the mess left by departing DOGE workers "neglect," adding that "these folks don't know how to run a large, multi-building commercial office complex."
This isn't the first time that Musk has been associated with accusations of drug use either, as the richest man in the world was left furious after a New York Times report accused him of using a 'cocktail' of drugs while working for the Trump administration.
He pushed to swiftly change the subject, before slamming the newspaper and accusing it of reporting "lies about the Russiagate hoax."
Why were DOGE workers kicked out of the building?
The reason this shocking discovery has come to light is because DOGE employees were finally forcibly removed from the Usip building, allowing employees of the Institute to finally return to their post.
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DOGE has repeatedly attempted to shut down the institute, laying off as many workers as possible as part of widespread cuts, and they had taken the office building as their own personal working space.
Usip acting president George Moose declared DOGE's attempts to commandeer their office building as "an illegal takeover by elements of the executive branch," and it was only last month that workers at the Institute were finally allowed back in.
This was following a court ruling that called DOGE's attempts to remove Usip "unlawful," outlining that it led by "illegitimately-installed leaders," although DOGE certainly left their mark in the items they refused to dispose of before finally returning control.