This is the kind of heroic stand that could ignite widespread resistance…

Staffers working at the U.S. African Development Foundation — which has a relatively minuscule budget of just $40 million — blocked a DOGE team from entering their building yesterday for over an hour, an as yet unprecedented act.

Roughly 30 USADF employees were working at the building when the DOGE henchmen, described as two “very young men,” arrived. The DOGE boys lied and claimed to be USADF staff who didn’t have their key cards for entry.

The security guard informed the staff in the building and they directed him to block entry because the DOGE boys matched the description of DOGE staffers who had previously visited the agency to introduce themselves.

Clearly, Elon isn’t hiring the best and brightest.

The DOGE boys then threatened the security guard, stating that they would call the U.S. Marshals to force their way in. The guard relented, but when DOGE reached the USADF floor the staffers refused to grant them entry.

The USADF staff told The Washington Post that they knew that DOGE wanted to dismantle their agency and saw this moment as their last chance to block Musk’s boys from accessing their system.

Ward Brehm, the head of USADF, was not present for the dramatic encounter but he had previously sent a letter to DOGE barring any meetings unless he was present.

“In my absence, I have specifically instructed the staff of USADF to adhere to our rules and procedure of not allowing any meetings of this type without my presence,” he wrote.

The DOGE group was eventually joined by Pete Marocco from the State Department, a MAGA minion who has been working to slash foreign aid, and they threatened to come back the next day.

Denied entry to the USADF offices, the DOGE team wandered the halls aimlessly and eventually left in defeat an hour later.

A brief video of the standoff has gone viral on X after being shared by a ProPublica reporter who obtained permission from the USADF employees to post.

Clearly, these valiant individuals want their defiant message spread and hopefully it will serve as an example to others. Let’s honor their wish.

WATCH: Tiny Gov Agency Blocks DOGE Goons From Building in Heated Standoff

One of the smallest government agencies stood strong this week, blocking a team of Elon Musk’s DOGE goons from entering their office and firing them.

Staffers at U.S. African Development Foundation, which has a budget of just $40 million or so, for over an hour Wednesday fended off a team of young men demanding entry, The Washington Post reported.

The group, which was joined by Pete Marocco, the State Department official tasked with slashing foreign aid, threatened to return the following day with U.S. marshals, unnamed USADF employees told the Post.

A snippet of the tense standoff was caught on video and posted to X by a ProPublica reporter with permission of the USADF staff involved. It shows two backpack-wearing young men facing off with older men in suits.

The DOGE youngsters showed up around noon on Wednesday, while the agency’s approximately 30 employees were working in the office, according to the Post.

A security officer called the office to let them know that two “very young men” were asking to be let in. The pair offered the explanation that they were USADF staff who did not have key cards.

The staff in the office told security not to let them up, as the description matched with DOGE staffers who had already shown up at the agency to make an introduction.

USADF officials told the Post that they were aware that DOGE was aiming to dismantle their agency and felt it was their final chance from blocking Musk’s goons from accessing their system. A USADF official with firsthand knowledge of the purpose of the meeting confirmed that it was to fire the employees.

USADF’s chief, Ward Brehm, was not in the office on Wednesday. But employees were aware of a letter he had sent to DOGE making the team aware that he was not allowing ad-hoc meetings without his attendance.

“In my absence, I have specifically instructed the staff of USADF to adhere to our rules and procedure of not allowing any meetings of this type without my presence,” he wrote.With the young men threatening to call the U.S. marshals, the security team let them into the building. However, when they reached USADF’s floor, nobody would let them into the office

The baby-faced DOGE staffers proceeded to wander the halls—while USADF’s employees kept working at their desks—until they finally left around an hour after arriving at the building.

As they departed, though, they threatened to return on Thursday with U.S. marshals. Around midday on Thursday, the same ProPublica reporter who a shared a video of the confrontation, Brett Murphy, posted that DOGE and Marocco had returned.

So far, it’s not clear whether the redoubled effort was successful.

Since Trump’s inauguration, Musk has railed against foreign aid and pushed to end many programs at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

USADF is much smaller, with just around 50 employees. Since being established by an legislation in 1980, it has sought to invest in and otherwise support activities that benefit underserved African communities.

Unlike other of the foreign aid organizations targeted by Musk, the agency is operated by a board of directors, who oversee its CEO and president—a role currently filled by Brehm.

A White House spokesperson told the Post, “Entitled bureaucrats like Ward Brehm are only demonstrating why independent agencies must be held accountable to officials elected by the American people.”

An USADF official told the Post that they don’t have to take orders from Marocco because it’s “explicit in the statute that the agency can only be dissolved by an act of Congress.”