The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Tuesday that the Inter-American Foundation has removed all but one employee from its payroll in order to comply with President Trump’s executive order on reducing federal bureaucracy.
The headcount at the independent federal agency prior to the downsizing was 48 and the average employee salary was $131,000 per year, according to the Elon Musk-headed DOGE.
“The Inter-American Foundation, an agency whose primary action was to issue foreign grants ($60M budget), has been reduced to its statutory minimum (1 active employee),” DOGE tweeted.
The Inter-American Foundation, created by Congress in 1969, issues grants to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean for “localized community-led development,” according to the agency’s website.