Think Tank Quickies (#519)

• The night USIP was taken over, March 17th, staffers from Elon Musk's DOGE walked around its headquarters smoking cigars and drinking beers while they dismantled the signage and disabled the computer systems.
• Think tanks are helping the DoD dodge DOGE. 
• This small but influential think tank is charting a controversial course for Trump's populism. 
• JPMorganChase announced it launched the Center for Geopolitics, a new client advisory service led by Derek Chollet, the former State Department counselor and former chief of staff to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. 
• Christine Largarde discussed leaving the ECB early to head the World Economic Forum (WEF).
• Jordan Brewer is leaving the Cato Institute to join the State Department as special adviser in the bureau of cyberspace and digital policy. 
• The Burning Glass Institute: "A labor market think tank." 
• JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio both addressed the American Compass New World Gala in Washington, DC. 
• Nada Hamadeh, a member of the Middle East Institute's Board of Governors, was named Lebanon's ambassador to the US. 
• Defense Priorities, the other think tank influencing US intelligence.