EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin was scheduled to meet last week with tech mogul Elon Musk’s team that has gained access to sensitive systems and blocked spending across the federal government.
An entry in Zeldin’s public calendar posted on EPA’s website shows “Meeting with DOGE,” which is short for the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, on Feb. 5. The meeting, slated to start at 11 a.m., was to last 45 minutes and was in Washington.
DOGE has been granted “read-only access” to the EPA Acquisition System, or EAS, the agency’s vast contracting system that details millions of dollars in spending, according to an email viewed by POLITICO’s E&E News.
In addition, three DOGE aides, including a SpaceX employee, have been assigned to EPA and may request “contract actions” be “terminated,” according to the email.
