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Created Feb 12, 2025 by Adrienne Angles@adrienneanglesMaintainer

Musk Polls whether DOGE Staffer who made Racist Posts must Come Back


DOGE head Elon Musk is performing an online poll about whether to give another opportunity to his 25-year-old aide who resigned after his posts in favor of eugenics were exposed.

Musk's online poll came hours after Marko Elez, the aide who was combating to gain access to a database with Treasury payments amounting to trillions, stepped down.

He resigned after posts under a pseudonym, consisting of a call to 'normalize' Indian hate, were uncovered. One boasted he was 'racist before it was cool.'

Musk, whose real and perceived influence has actually grown to the point that he is imagined on the cover of the current Time publication seated behind the governmental Resolute Desk, raised the concern in the form of a concern.

'Restore @DOGE staffer who made unsuitable statements via a now deleted pseudonym?' the billionaire SpaceX and Tesla creator asked.

The survey quickly attracted 4 million views on X, revealing Musk's reach on the platform he bought and renamed.

His poll just allows users to react with a 'yes' or 'no.'

The results were unambiguous. Out of nearly 400,000 actions, those who participated favored the reinstatement of Elez by 78 percent to 22 percent.

But Musk gave more clearness on his posture in response to another X user.

S.E. Robinson, who explains himself as a details broker for numerous Musk companies, published that Elez 'is worthy of a 2nd opportunity ... Seriously however, have a speak to about the racist stuff. Not cool.'

DOGE head Elon Musk published an online poll asking whether Marko Elez, who resigned after racist posts were unearthed, need to be revived. Elez graduated 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

'True,' Musk responded.

Elez's name only appeared after a court battle over accessing Treasury's $5 trillion payment system.

Within hours, the Wall Street Journal had actually hunted down his posts from a now-deleted account.

Musk presently lists his title on X as 'White House Tech Support', a cheeky missive that however points to the value of the data his young group is seeking to gain access to.

Musk's survey, providing a possible ammo for Elez to be renewed, clashofcryptos.trade comes as DOGE is under increased examination for gaining access to federal government company details systems.

He is placing senior federal government officials on leave as he looks for $1 trillion in cost savings by slashing staff.

DOGE informed 9,400 USAID staff members they will be fired, with plans just to retain 611 deemed essential.

It came as the firm all of a sudden remembered staff members stationed overseas as part of its foreign support mission, provoking wails from congressional Democrats that Trump was in impact getting rid of an agency authorized and moneyed by Congress.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has actually been named acting head of the agency.

President Trump has long been known to be cautious of aides who eclipse him in the spotlight. On the occasion that the Time cover image wasn't helpful, Musk left no doubt online about his admiration for Trump.

'I enjoy @realDonaldTrump as much as a straight man can love another guy,' he posted.

Elez was among two workers 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 trusted had actually resigned after The Wall Street Journal probed his links to the since-deleted social media account.

According to the publication, annunciogratis.net the X account 'advocated rescinding the Civil Rights Act and backed a "eugenic immigration policy".'

Other posts supposedly read 'You might not pay me to wed exterior of my ethnicity', and 'normalize Indian hate.'

Another supposedly checked out: 'Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.'

The account likewise weighed in on the Israel-Palestine crisis, prawattasao.awardspace.info with a post that checked out: 'I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both rubbed out the face of the Earth.'

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt later on said that Elez had resigned from his function.

Elez finished with a computer science degree from Rutgers University and went on to work for Musk's SpaceX, Starlink, and X, systemcheck-wiki.de with a focus predominately in AI.

Musk performed a survey about restoring a DOGE staffer he said made 'inappropriate statements'

Marko Elez was among two employees at the Department of Government Efficiency gave access to $5trillion in the Treasury payment systems following an 11th hour court hearing on Thursday

Musk has actually been proudly recording the work of DOGE on X, sparking protests on the streets as furious lefties chant 'Deport Musk,' 'Down with Trump' and 'Do your Job Congress!'

It follows a last-ditch court request to restrict DOGE's access to Treasury's $5trillion system - the very first misstep for the nascent agency after weeks of ruthlessly purging federal organizations to remove waste and overspending.

Over the coming days and weeks, the court's choice on privacy concerns about DOGE's access to the data will be a huge test of their power to infiltrate and erase federal government spending.

Lawyers with the Justice Department consented to a motion that allows only two individuals related to Musk 'read-only' access to the system - including income tax return and social security numbers - on the condition that they do not share what they discover with coworkers.

Those 2 workers were Musk disciples Tom Krause and Elez.

Virginia Congressman Don Beyer explained Elez' resignation as 'a scandal.'

'Elon Musk offered a self-described 'racist' and eugenicist access to a system that manages all monetary payments from the U.S. Treasury,' he said.

'That system also contains the personal details including Social Security details of every American.

'This is why we have a process to veterinarian civil servants, and why we employ and promote them based upon benefit, not their individual relationship to some abundant guy.

'How attempt Elon Musk bully and threaten good people who spent their careers serving the American people when he brings this level of gross incompetence to his work.'

He demanded everyone who was involved in working with Elez be 'fired' and said DOGE 'needs to be deleted' in its whole.

Musk has actually faced criticism for his decision to hire a hand-picked group of young, college aged males to help him purge federal agencies and eliminate waste.

This week, six men aged between 19 and 25 were publicly identified as DOGE workers.

The oldest of the lot is 25-year-old Berkeley graduate Gavin Kliger, who while not determined as having leading level clearance has currently shown he wields substantial power.

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