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NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’
An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”
The email further instructs NMFS employees—responsible for promoting the conservation of sealife and sustainability of America’s seafood sources—to submit details of any ongoing work with international partners for vetting by higher-ups, including those at the US Department of Commerce (DOC), NOAA’s umbrella agency. WIRED reported Wednesday that NOAA officials had been ordered to grant Nikhil Rajpal, a former Twitter employee who appears to have no expertise in ocean and atmospheric science, the power to edit documents concerning the agency’s work hosted by Google Sites. WIRED has also learned that Rajpal is listed as an “expert” on a roster at the Office of Personnel Management, the government’s human resources department, where DOGE operatives have installed a server gathering information on federal employees that has been used to repeatedly communicate the administration’s deferred resignation program.
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