WIRED – Four representatives of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force have been installed at the National Institutes of Health, according to multiple sources.
WIRED reporting shows not only which DOGE members are at the NIH but also the sensitive financial system at least some of them have access to.
Government records reviewed by WIRED show that the four people associated with DOGE have email addresses linking them to the NIH, the federal agency for health research in the US.
Internal documents reviewed by WIRED show that three of these employees are employed in the department that controls the NIH’s central electronic business system, which includes finance, budget, procurement, a property-management system, and a grant-tracking system.
The DOGE operatives listed in government records are Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley, Jeremy Lewin, and Clark Minor.
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Farritor is a former SpaceX intern and current Thiel fellow who also has a working email address linking him to the General Services Administration (GSA). Minor, a former engineer at Palantir, is, as has been reported, the chief information officer of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Lewin is an agency lead at DOGE, according to ProPublica; he has a GSA email and has been named in an affidavit related to a lawsuit as having been involved in the gutting of the US Agency for International Development.
Riley works closely with Brad Smith, a former health care entrepreneur and DOGE leader prior to President Donald Trump’s inauguration, according to The New York Times …