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DOGE head Elon Musk is performing an online poll about whether to provide another possibility 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, vetlek.ru consisting of a call to 'normalize' Indian hate, were unearthed. One bragged he was 'racist before it was cool.'

Musk, whose real and perceived impact has grown to the point that he is pictured on the cover of the current Time publication seated behind the presidential Resolute Desk, raised the concern in the kind of a concern.

'Revive @DOGE staffer who made improper declarations through a now erased pseudonym?' the billionaire SpaceX and Tesla founder asked.

The survey rapidly brought in 4 million views on X, galgbtqhistoryproject.org showing Musk's reach on the platform he purchased and renamed.

His survey just enables users to respond with a 'yes' or 'no.'

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

But Musk gave more clarity on his posture in action to another X user.

S.E. Robinson, who explains himself as a details broker for several Musk business, published that Elez 'is worthy of a 2nd opportunity ... Seriously though, have a talk to about the racist things. Not cool.'

DOGE head Elon Musk posted an online survey asking whether Marko Elez, who resigned after racist posts were unearthed, users.atw.hu should be brought back. Elez graduated with a computer science degree from Rutgers University and went on to work for Musk's SpaceX, Starlink, and X, with a focus predominately in AI

'True,' Musk reacted.

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

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

Musk presently notes his title on X as 'White House Tech Support', a saucy missive that nevertheless points to the value of the information his young group is seeking to gain access to.

Musk's poll, offering a potential ammo for Elez to be reinstated, comes as DOGE is under increased scrutiny for gaining access to federal government company details systems.

He is putting senior federal government officials on leave as he seeks $1 trillion in savings by slashing staff.

DOGE notified 9,400 USAID employees they will be fired, with plans only to retain 611 deemed essential.

It came as the company suddenly recalled employees stationed overseas as part of its foreign help objective, provoking wails from congressional Democrats that Trump was in result removing a firm licensed and moneyed by Congress.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has actually been called acting head of the company.

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

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

Elez was one of two employees at the Department of Government Efficiency gave access to $5trillion in the 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 Journal penetrated his links to the since-deleted social networks account.

According to the publication, the X account 'promoted rescinding the Civil Rights Act and backed a "eugenic migration policy".'

Other posts presumably check out 'You might not pay me to wed beyond 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, with a post that checked out: 'I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both cleaned off 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 technology degree from Rutgers University and went on to work for Musk's SpaceX, Starlink, and X, with a focus predominately in AI.

Musk conducted a survey about restoring a DOGE staffer he said made 'improper 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 been happily documenting the work of DOGE on X, triggering demonstrations on the streets as furious lefties shout 'Deport Musk,' 'Down with Trump' and 'Do your Job Congress!'

It follows a desperate court demand to restrict DOGE's access to Treasury's $5trillion system - the very first misstep for the nascent company after weeks of ruthlessly purging federal organizations to eliminate waste and overspending.

Over the coming days and weeks, the court's decision on privacy issues about DOGE's access to the information will be a huge test of their power to penetrate and erase government spending.

Lawyers with the Justice Department concurred to a movement that allows only 2 people connected with Musk 'read-only' access to the system - including tax returns and social security numbers - on the condition that they do not share what they find with coworkers.

Those two staff members were Musk disciples Tom Krause and Elez.

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

'Elon Musk provided a self-described 'racist' and eugenicist access to a system that manages all financial 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 vet civil servants, and why we employ and promote them based upon merit, not their individual relationship to some rich guy.

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

He required everybody who was included in hiring Elez be 'fired' and said DOGE 'needs to be erased' in its totality.

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

This week, six males aged between 19 and 25 were openly identified as DOGE employees.

The earliest of the lot is 25-year-old Berkeley graduate Gavin Kliger, who while not recognized as having leading level clearance has already proven he wields considerable power.

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