Nikhil Rajpal, an engineer with Twitter, is now representing Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force at NOAA, according to sources of information reviewed by WIRED. Rajpal has working email addresses linked to both DOE and NOAA for their roles as official representatives of the President. His presence in the public-facing employee directory and a shortened version of his social media presence suggest he is a DOE employee. Earlier, on Friday, Logout access to all NOAA Google sites was granted to DOE users following the action of acting Commerce secretary Jeremy Pelter. Similarly, anستطيعee employee with 40+ years of service serving as the director of diversity equity inclusion and accessibility has taken administrative leave, three weeks before his scheduled retirement. Despite his unexpectedly glowing online presence, Rajpal’s online activity has largely been stripped out of visibility, despite evidence suggesting otherwise.
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Rajpal served as the head of a libertarian advocacy group advocating for minimal government, free markets, sound money, non-intervention, and individual liberty. In 2014, he gave a 10-minute presentation on Bitcoin to a freelance Google intern working at Viget, the company where Rajpal interned. This account under the header “Read the articles I Begin” featured articles from figures like Richard Hanania, Quillette, and Zero Hedge, as well as publications like Financial Times and Bloomberg.
Rajpal’s background does not indicate any specialized expertise relevant to his new roles, but his advocacy for transparent markets and individual freedoms aligns him with NOAA’s long-standing reputation as a nonpartisan scientific agency focused on monitoring the oceans and atmosphere for climate change. NOAA’s mission is to predict and model changes in the oceans and atmosphere to help the federal government prepare for and address climate-related challenges, including hurricanes, heatwaves, and rising sea levels. The agency has long been a target of conservatives, as highlighted in the Project 2025 proposal, which calls for the agency to be divided, reduced in size, andessoa p autonomous to bear the brunt of climate change-related aid deductions.
In recent months, NOAA employees have taken over key government roles, including those overseeing the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the General Services Administration (GSA), as well as initiatives to address the scope of government work andinth controlling private affairs like HIV/AIDS relief. Under Trump’s executive order signed last year, DOE access to unclassified systems was expanded, allowing its employees to exercise extraordinary power over highly sensitive government systems, including personal data of millions of citizens and information about businesses.
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