Elon Musk's new DOGE Staffer Quits Over Racist Social Network Posts
Among Elon Musk's relied on DOGE staffers has resigned from his position after his links to racist social networks posts promoting eugenics were discovered. Marko Elez was among two staff members at the Department of Government Efficiency approved access to $5trillion in the Treasury payment systems following an 11th hour court hearing on Thursday.
But by Thursday afternoon, the 25-year-old trusted Musk ally had actually resigned after The Wall Street Journal probed his links to the since-deleted social networks account. According to the publication, the X account 'promoted rescinding the Civil liberty Act and backed a 'eugenic immigration policy'.' Other posts presumably check out 'You could not pay me to wed outside of my ethnic culture', and 'normalize Indian hate.' Another apparently read: 'Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.' The account likewise weighed in on the Israel-Palestine crisis, with a post that read: 'I would incline at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.'
White House representative Karoline Leavitt said that Elez (pictured) had resigned from his role. Elez finished with a computer science degree from Rutgers University and went on to work for Musk's SpaceX, Starlink, and X, with a focus predominately in AI. It follows a last-ditch court request to limit DOGE's access to Treasury's $5trillion system - the first misstep for the nascent company after weeks of ruthlessly purging federal institutions to get rid of waste and overspending.
Over the coming days and weeks, the court's decision on privacy issues about DOGE's access to the information will be a huge test of their power to penetrate and eliminate government costs.
Among Elon Musk's relied on DOGE staffers has resigned from his position after his links to racist social networks posts promoting eugenics were discovered. Marko Elez was among two staff members at the Department of Government Efficiency approved access to $5trillion in the Treasury payment systems following an 11th hour court hearing on Thursday.
But by Thursday afternoon, the 25-year-old trusted Musk ally had actually resigned after The Wall Street Journal probed his links to the since-deleted social networks account. According to the publication, the X account 'promoted rescinding the Civil liberty Act and backed a 'eugenic immigration policy'.' Other posts presumably check out 'You could not pay me to wed outside of my ethnic culture', and 'normalize Indian hate.' Another apparently read: 'Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.' The account likewise weighed in on the Israel-Palestine crisis, with a post that read: 'I would incline at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.'
White House representative Karoline Leavitt said that Elez (pictured) had resigned from his role. Elez finished with a computer science degree from Rutgers University and went on to work for Musk's SpaceX, Starlink, and X, with a focus predominately in AI. It follows a last-ditch court request to limit DOGE's access to Treasury's $5trillion system - the first misstep for the nascent company after weeks of ruthlessly purging federal institutions to get rid of waste and overspending.
Over the coming days and weeks, the court's decision on privacy issues about DOGE's access to the information will be a huge test of their power to penetrate and eliminate government costs.
