Musk Doge -Employee resigns racist positions on social media

An employee of the Department of Government Efficiency Team led by technical billionaire Elon Musk withdrew Thursday after The Wall Street Journal Asked the White House about his connection to an account on social media spoken of racism and eugenik.

DOGE -The employee, Marko ElezEarlier Thursday, had been approved by a federal judge along with another Doge employee to have access to the payment system in the US Treasury, but limited his ability to share data from the system.

The journal said it had established connections between 25-year-old Elez and a social media account on Musk’s Platform X, which was deleted in December.

“The deleted @nullllptr account previously went with the username @marko_elez, a review of archived submissions shows,” the journal reported. “The user behind @nullllptr also described himself as an employee of SpaceX and Starlink, where Elez has worked, according to archives on Elez’s personal site.”

Musk plays an important role in the efforts of President Donald Trump to cut down the federal government expenses and employees of employees. Elez had been appointed as a special employee of the government.

“You couldn’t pay me to marry outside my ethnicity,” @nullllptr tweeted on X in September, the journal reported.

“Normalize Indian hatred,” the account wrote the same month, referring to a post noting the occurrence of people from India in Silicon Valley, “according to the journal.

“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” the account sent in July, according to the newspaper.

In June, the account twitly twited, “I didn’t want to mind if Gaza and Israel were both wiped out by the face of the earth.”

Spokesman for the White House Karoline Leavitt told the journal that Elez retired after the journal asked about the account.

An official in the White House confirmed Elez’s resignation to CNBC.

In an interview with Bloomberg News service, published on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had personally monitored one of the two state employees of Musk’s Doge team.

“These are highly educated professionals,” Bessent told Bloomberg. “This is not a roving band running around and doing things.”

“This is methodical and it will give great savings,” said the head of the Treasury.