DOGE aide pops up in EPA staff directory

By Timothy Cama, Kevin Bogardus | 02/04/2025 01:51 PM EST

Elon Musk has often butted heads with the country’s top environmental agency, and the aide’s presence there may indicate a shake-up is imminent.

EPA headquarters.

EPA headquarters. Francis Chung/E&E News/POLITICO

A person said to be associated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is listed in EPA’s staff directory.

Gautier Cole Killian appears in the directory on EPA’s website as a “Federal Detailee,” a designation usually used for someone temporarily working at the agency on assignment from elsewhere in the federal government.

Killian has been identified in Wired as one of at least six engineers that DOGE has brought on to scrutinize federal agencies. They have been given unprecedented access to government infrastructure like Treasury Department payments and federal employees’ personal data.

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Killian, whose preferred first name is Cole, attended McGill University in Montreal until at least 2021, Wired reported, citing a resume that was deleted. He graduated from high school in 2019 and was later an engineer at high-frequency trading firm Jump Trading.

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