Member of Elon Musk's DOGE team resigns after racist posts resurface

Donald Trump's newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is running into its first major scandal.

A DOGE staff member has resigned after being connected to a social media account that advocated for racism and eugenics.

Trump's ally, billionaire businessman Elon Musk is currently leading DOGE.

The DOGE staffer, Marko Elez, had been the subject of a dispute regarding DOGE access to the payment system at the U.S. Treasury earlier on the same day that the social media scandal was discovered.

CNBC reports that the connection between Elez and the now-deleted social account was first discovered by the Wall Street Journal.

"The deleted @nullllptr account previously went by the username @marko_elez, a review of archived posts shows," according to the Wall Street Journal. "The user behind the @nullllptr also described themselves as an employee at SpaceX and Starlink, where Elez has worked, according to archives of Elez’s personal website."

"You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity," the account posted in September 2024.

Another post that month said, "Normalize Indian hate."

"Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool," the account also posted.

Despite the terrible social media posts, at least one outlet is reporting that Elon Musk will be bringing Marko Elez back into the fold at DOGE.

BBC.com reports:

Elon Musk has said he will rehire an employee of his newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) who resigned after being linked to a racist social media account.

"He will be brought back," Musk said on social media. "To err is human, to forgive divine."

Vice President JD Vance agreed that the young employee should be given a second chance, according to the BBC:

Writing on X, Vance said that while he disagreed "with some of Elez's posts... I don't think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid's life".

Musk even went so far as to conduct a poll on X, the website formerly known as Twitter, asking whether or not the employee should be brought back.

At least 78% voted that the employee should be allowed to return.

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