Mary Glantz was in her room at a Hampton Inn in Columbia, South Carolina, last Friday night during a trip visiting friends when her phone began pinging furiously with messages at 9:30 p.m.
They were from panicked colleagues at the U.S. Institute of Peace, an independent, congressionally funded organisation in Washington that had found itself in the crosshairs of billionaire Elon Musk’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency.
