Musk Connections: Former Twitter and Tesla Engineer
DOGE Deployments: Consumer Finance Protection Bureau and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
According to WIRED and Bloomberg, Rajpal was part of the initial cohort of DOGE representatives given full access to the CFPB’s data systems, including sensitive records regarding bank examinations and enforcement actions.
WIRED also reported that Rajpal was one of the DOGE representatives deployed to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where he has “editor access to all NOAA Google sites.”
RAJPAL’S PLACEMENTS AT THE CFPB AND NOAA ARE CONCERNING GIVEN THAT HE SEEMINGLY HAS NO EXPERTISE IN CONSUMER FINANCE OR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Rajpal worked as an engineer at Twitter before Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company. Rajpal also reportedly worked on console design for Tesla, a notably problematic aspect of Musk’s vehicles.
RAJPAL MAY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH KOCH-BACKED STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS AT UC BERKELEY
As an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, Rajpal reportedly headed Students for Liberty (SFL), a “non-partisan political student organization at UC Berkeley dedicated to promoting the ideas of minimal government, free markets, sound money, non-intervention, and maximum individual liberty to campus and the surrounding community.”
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