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Clicking on the author's user profile [1] says they're a "Core Contributor". So maybe not the Wordpress org itself making the proposal but a core team member.

• rmccue 6y ago
  “Core Contributor” indicates they have contributed patches to WordPress previously and received acknowledgement (props) in the commit message, or have otherwise contributed to the Core component (i.e. the codebase, as opposed to Support/etc). It doesn’t indicate commit access or project leadership necessarily. That said, only significant contributors get access to post to Make.