The head of the Wilson Center, a foreign policy research center, resigned on Tuesday, a day after the employees arrived from the Elon Musk team, which saves the government to the group’s headquarters in Washington to dismantle it, according to the persons familiar with the procedures at the center.
The resignation of President Mark Green, a Republican, and the visit of the Ministry of Government Enablely team for Mr. Musk, indicated that the Trump administration is implementing an executive from President Trump last month directs that the organization, a group of non -partisan policies, is largely dismantled.
After the members of the Doug team visited the center on Monday and Tuesday, some leadership employees and senior government employees, including Mr. Green, were expelled, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to be identified to avoid the la time by the political appointed in the Trump administration. Dozens of federal employees were also placed in the center, about a third of its workforce, on an administrative leave.
The apparent evaluation of the Wilson Center will be the last attempt by the Trump administration to bring in institutions funded by the federal government that has Historically was independent Under control of the executive branch, and in forms of shrinking a lot. Mr. Musk and his work team helped to lead efforts to reduce these institutions and many federal agencies.
A person familiar with the resignation of Mr. Green said he was offered an option: step down or shoot. Mr. Green, who was a member of Congress in Wisconsin, is an ambassador in Tanzania and President Now finish The United States Agency for International Development during the first term of Mr. Trump, unknown for comment on Wednesday.
After the march Executive order Call to the center It is reduced Mr. Green wrote in an email letter to members that his leaders had seen the matter “to the minimum existence and the job required under the law.” He did not say whether the center would retreat against the executive order.
Ryan Makina, a spokesman for the Wilson Center, said on Wednesday that the center has no comment on Mr. Green’s resignation or Doug’s visits.
Trump administration official said that Mr. Green voluntarily resigned, and that Natasha Jacom, a senior adviser to Mr. Green, was the new head of the center. The head of the Wilson Center is usually appointed by the Board of Trustees, but the members of the Board of Directors have been expelled in recent weeks. Tuesday evening, the center site He said that The Board of Directors was “vacant”. The White House did not answer questions about the current council membership.
Mr. Trump announced in January that it was fire One of his own appointed, Brian Hook, who held the position of a special envoy for Iran during the first term of Mr. Trump before step down. Bill Hasralam, a former Republican governor of Tennessee, A, A, was also launched A newspaper reported in Noxfil, Tin..
Joe Asher, who was appointed by former President Joseph R. said. Biden Junior as Chairman of the Council in 2023, in the LinkedIn publication last month that he was launched by Mr. Biden, the other appoinals by Mr. Trump.
“We were asked to resign early in the week,” books“But I did not see the goal of that.”
He added that the members of the board of directors served without pay and praised the center, under the leadership of Mr. Green, as “first -class”.
In his e -mail, Mr. Green indicated that Congress gave the center a “special charter and delegation” when it was created in 1968 as a memorial to Woodrow Wilson, the twenty -eighth president. Wilson won the Nobel Prize in 1919 for his role in establishing the Association of Nations, a introduction to the United Nations, in the aftermath of World War I.
The Wilson Center itself is described as “a rented from Congress, driven for scholarships, and non -partisanship.” While Wilson itself was democratic, the center does not correspond to a political party and is managed historically by the members of both parties, and by the Council of the two parties. He receives federal funding for his work, but also requests and accepts special donations to run a list of fellowships and scholarships. They mostly go to academic researchers, but some went to journalists working on book projects, including correspondents in the New York Times.
It seems that fellowships and scholarships will continue on Wednesday, but their long -term fate is unclear. Donors can decide to end their financial support, depending on the composition of the new council and directing the center.
The center is located in the Ronald Reagan building in central Washington. This building was also a site for the US Agency for International Development until Mr. Moussk, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other assistants dismantled that agency and ended the lease contract there.
The Congress made the Wilson Center to honor an American president, in a similar way as the John Kennedy Center for Dramatic Arts, which took over Mr. Trump in February. After the Board of Directors was destroyed, Mr. Trump was elected as its chairman. He has since then subscriber A vision to reshape the cultural institution.
Mr. Green, Jane Harman, a democratic, held the position of head of the Wilson Center for a decade from time until 2021, expressed regret on Tuesday to the news of Mr. Green’s resignation and the administration’s decision to target the center, who said that she had a global reputation in non -party scholarships on foreign affairs.
“It contains an extraordinary scholarship and an unusual effect around the world,” said Ms. Harman. “It is completely not my party. And the attractiveness for me – I left Congress early in my ninth state because I wanted to go to a place that was an analyst of problems from the two parties focusing on international issues.”
Lara Gakes The reports contributed.
