House Natural Resources ranking member Jared Huffman on Friday demanded Chair Bruce Westerman conduct oversight into Elon Musk’s incursion into NOAA.
Musk and President Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) entered NOAA earlier this week, according to Democratic lawmakers who said they received reports of DOGE operatives in several of their offices.
Democrats fear that NOAA could be next on DOGE’s chopping block after it effectively annihilated the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) earlier this week.
They also fear that DOGE going in could end with Musk, the owner of SpaceX and Starlink, in control of a privatized National Weather Service. It comes as DOGE continues to run through scores of agencies in Washington at lightning speed, gaining access to key information systems and sidelining federal employees.
