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Created Feb 10, 2025 by Aliza Flinn@alizaflinn3888Maintainer

Elon Musk's new DOGE Staffer Quits Over Racist Social Media Posts


One of Elon Musk's trusted DOGE staffers has resigned from his position after his links to racist social networks posts promoting eugenics were discovered. Marko Elez was one of 2 staff members at the Department of Government Efficiency granted access to $5trillion in the Treasury payment systems following an 11th hour court hearing on Thursday.

But by Thursday afternoon, the 25-year-old relied on Musk ally had actually resigned after The Wall Street probed his links to the since-deleted social media account. According to the publication, the X account 'promoted rescinding the Civil liberty Act and wolvesbaneuo.com backed a 'eugenic migration policy'.' Other posts presumably check out 'You could not pay me to wed beyond my ethnic background', and 'normalize Indian hate.' Another supposedly read: 'Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.' The account also weighed in on the Israel-Palestine crisis, with a post that read: 'I would incline at all if Gaza and Israel were both rubbed out the face of the Earth.'

White House representative Karoline Leavitt said that Elez (visualized) had actually resigned from his function. Elez finished with a computer technology degree from Rutgers University and went on to work for Musk's SpaceX, Starlink, and X, with a focus predominately in AI. It comes after a last-ditch court demand to limit DOGE's access to Treasury's $5trillion system - the first hiccup for the nascent company after weeks of ruthlessly purging federal institutions to eliminate waste and overspending.

Over the coming days and weeks, the court's choice on privacy concerns about DOGE's access to the information will be a monumental test of their power to infiltrate and eliminate federal government costs. Lawyers with the Justice Department accepted a motion that enables just 2 people related to Musk 'read-only' access to the system - consisting of tax returns and social security numbers - on the condition that they do not share what they find with colleagues.

Those two workers are Musk disciples Tom Krause and Elez. Virginia Congressman Don Beyer explained Elez' resignation as 'a scandal.' 'Elon Musk gave a self-described 'racist' and eugenicist access to a system that manages all financial payments from the U.S. Treasury,' he said. 'That system likewise contains the personal details consisting of Social Security details of every American. This is why we have a procedure to veterinarian civil servants, and why we employ and promote them based on merit, not their personal relationship to some abundant guy. How attempt Elon Musk bully and threaten excellent individuals who spent their professions serving the American people when he brings this level of gross incompetence to his work.'

He demanded everyone who was involved in employing Elez be 'fired' and said DOGE 'needs to be erased' in its totality. Musk has actually dealt with criticism for his decision to hire a hand-picked team of young, college aged men to assist him purge federal agencies and get rid of waste. This week, 6 men aged in between 19 and 25 were publicly identified as DOGE staff members.

At simply 19, Edward Coristine (envisioned) is the youngest of the fresh-faced lot taking on corporate America and longstanding government organizations. According to WIRED, he's been called an 'expert' in his field, and specifics about his function aren't yet clear.

Akash Bobba, 21, Ethan Shaotran, 22, and Luke Farritor, 23, in addition to Coristine, have actually supposedly been granted A-suite level clearance for their work, suggesting they can work out of the agency's leading flooring with access to all physical spaces and IT systems. Musk's DOGE has actually been rapidly growing in power and broadening its remit, most just recently protecting clearance to access to limited parts of the General Services Administration buildings and IT systems.

The earliest of the lot is 25-year-old Berkeley graduate Gavin Kliger (pictured), who while not identified as having top level clearance has actually currently proven he wields considerable power. Finally, Gautier Cole Killian has been called for menwiki.men his function with DOGE, which is reportedly on a 'volunteer' basis at this phase.

After extensive criticism about the males's youth, Musk launched a statement about the consultations. 'Time to admit: Media reports saying that DOGE has a few of world's finest software engineers remain in reality true,' Musk wrote on X.

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