An engineer named Nizhil Rajpal is representing the so -called Elon Musk Efficiency of the Ministry of the Government (DOGE) Special forces at the National Ocean and Ocean Agency (NOAA), according to many sources.
Government records are considered by Wired showing that Rajpal has an email address working with both Doge and NOAA. The DOGE The address, like others from the agency, in the format that ties it into the President's executive office. Rajpal also appears in the public employee directory of NOAA.
According to sources familiar to this situation, on Wednesday, NOAA employees were ordered to access RAJPAL editors to all NOAA Google websites at the instructions of the Minister of Trade. , Jeremy Pelter, due to the end of the business.
A employee of NOAA with more than 40 years of service, who led the agency's work on diversity, fairness, including and accessible, according to these sources, are administrative leave on something. Three, three weeks before retirement as scheduled. This person did not answer the request.
AXIOS reports On Tuesday, Doge workers went to NOAA facilities in Maryland on Tuesday to seek access to IT systems; A wired source said to confirm this.
Although the online presence of Rajpal seems to have been wiped out most, Wired was able to get copies of resume and, through public databases, other biography information. They show Nik, as he mentioned himself, about 30 years old and studied computer science and history at the University of California, Berkeley. Rajpal worked at Twitter before acquiring Elon Musk and previously redesigned Tesla control.
As a college student, Rajpal is the leader of a freelanceist Student group Support the minimum government, free market, audio, no intervention and maximum personal freedom. In 2014, he presented 10 minutes about Bitcoin for Viget, the company he was practicing. ONE Account Instapaper Linked from his personal website under the title “Read the articles I read” show articles from Richard Hanania, Quillette and FencelessAs well as publications such as financial and bloomberg newspapers.
Nothing in his platform shows any special expertise regarding his new role. NOAA is a non -party scientific agency to monitor and model the oceans and atmosphere with the purpose of predicting changes in climate and weather; Its research and technology are the basis for everything, from weather reports to storms and fisheries management to detailed forecasts on long -term impacts of climate change.
This agency has long been the goal of conservatives; the Project 2025 The policy calls it to be broken and narrowed, and for the work of national weather services, which is located in NOAA, mostly privatized.
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Rajpal did not answer immediately asking for a comment. NOAA has directed a request for the Ministry of Trade, under which it sat. Trade did not answer immediately asking for a comment, the White House was not.
Doge workers, according to the sources and reports published by Wired, effectively took over the government agencies including Human Resources Management Office (OPM) and General service management (GSA) They also play an important role In preventing HIV and AIDS relief that the government has exempted from the reduction of foreign aid to the recipient as part of the USA International Development Agency (USAID). Trump.
According to the terms of one Executive command Signed by Trump, Doge has access to all non -classified systems, giving its representatives an extraordinary range of power to sensitive government systems, among other things. , containing personal information of tens of millions of citizens as well as information about businesses. A DOGE worker, like Wired reportedHaving a full access to the law of a system of financial control of the majority of trillions of dollars in payments that the Federal Government implements each year.