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This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk's DOGE task force access to all NOAA Google sites by the end of business Wednesday.

An engineer named Nikhil Rajpal is representing Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency(DOGE) task force at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to multiple sources. As an undergraduate, Rajpal was the leader of a libertarian-aligned student group advocating for “minimal government, free markets, sound money, non-intervention, and maximum individual liberty.” In 2014, he gave a 10-minute presentation on Bitcoin to Viget, the company at which he was interning. One DOGE worker, as WIRED has reported, has full access to the code of a Treasury Department system that controls the vast majority of the trillions of dollars in payments the federal government makes every year.

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