Member of Musk’s DODE -Told resigns after racist positions resurrect: NPR

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An employee associated with the Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency withdrew Thursday after now-acclaimed racist social media posts were resurrected.

The resignation was confirmed by an official in the White House who was not authorized to speak in public.

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old software engineer, worked within the Ministry of Finance to cut back on costs and eradicate fraud as part of Musk’s Doge effort. Elez was one of two temporary appointed by Treasury, associated with DOGE, which has accessed a very sensitive treasury system that treats trillion of dollars in payments each year.

The Wall Street Journal reported In a number of 2024 positions from an account connected to Elez on Musk’s X -Platform and noted that officials in the White House confirmed his resignation after the paper pointed out Elez’s activity on the social media site.

“You couldn’t pay me to marry outside my ethnicity,” the account wrote in September. “Normalize Indian hatred,” reads a separate post from that month.

Last July last year the account released: “Just for the record I was racist before it was cool.”

In other positions, from December, the account is pressed to cancel the Civil Rights Act and shared, “I just want an Eugenic immigration policy, it is too much to ask.”

All posts have now been deleted, but NPR has independently confirmed them using the Internet Archiv’s Wayback machine that scrapes and archives large parts of the open web.

Elez did not return NPR’s requests for comment.

The resignation of Elez comes in the midst of growing questions from legislators and former federal government employees about the dozens of staff, Musk has been tapping to help him pursue aggressive cost extraction and in some cases try to dismantle entire agencies.

As critics emphasize legal and ethical issues about Dog’s seemingly uncontrolled persecution of government’s savings policy, Democrats in Congress run into obstacles. A democratically-led attempt to sue musk about possible conflicts of interest in juggling with his dove role with the six companies he runs were blocked by Republicans on Wednesday. Democratic senators issue dazzling statements and write letters to Musk’s companies that require answers, but such traits are likely to not result in testimony in Washington as long as Republicans have a majority in both chambers.

Elez’s access to the Treasury payment system had raised alarms over whether sensitive data, including banking information about millions of Americans, is shared with Musk and his allies.

Two trade unions representing federal employees and a proportion of advocates representing retirees, the defendant defended the treasury department and accused it of violating federal privacy laws.

Elez had recently been appointed a special employee in the Treasury, the government told the federal judge who heard the case this week. It is a temporary agreement that allows the worker to perform “limited services.”

A lawyer in the Ministry of Justice said that Elez and another special employee of the Treasury associated with DOGE, Tom Krause, had “Read-Only” access to the payment system and that no data was shared outside the agency, including with Musk’s white house-based DODE Team.

On Thursday, the judge issued an order that temporarily prevented the Treasury from giving access to the payment system to everyone outside the department.