DOGE staffer resigns after racist posts uncovered. Elon Musk might bring him back.

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old engineer, is the first of Elon Musk’s DOGE crew to lose their job.Elez resigned from his post at Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE, on Thursday after the Wall Street Journal uncovered that Elez had published racist statements on an anonymous account that once bore his name. However, on Friday, Musk confirmed he could bring Elez back to DOGE.”He will be brought back,” Musk posted to his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, while quoting Vice President JD Vance’s post supporting Elez’s rehiring. “To err is human, to forgive divine.” Tweet may have been deleted On Friday morning, Elon Musk posted a poll on X asking his followers if he should reinstate the engineer who posted racist remarks.”Bring back @DOGE staffer who made inappropriate statements via a now deleted pseudonym?” posted Musk alongside a poll on his social media platform X, formerly Twitter.The poll received more than 385,000 votes, which were overwhelmingly in favor of Musk rehiring Elez. Tweet may have been deleted When working for DOGE, Elez was assigned to the Treasury Department. As Wired reported, Elez was given direct access to the federal government’s payment system, which includes U.S. citizens’ tax returns and Social Security payment information.”Normalize Indian hate,” posted Elez under the username @nullllptr on X in July. The account formerly was tied to Elez directly by name before he changed it to an anonymous handle.”Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” Elez also posted. “You could…DOGE staffer resigns after racist posts uncovered. Elon Musk might bring him back.