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One of the two staffers for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency who was granted access to the US Treasury’s sensitive payment system has resigned from his post after the White House was asked about his history of racist social media posts, including advocating for repealing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Marko Elez, a 25-year-old programmer who was brought into government service by the world’s wealthiest man, had a profile on X (formerly Twitter), the social media site owned by Musk, featuring posts in which he said he supported a “eugenic immigration policy” and made other racist statements.
In one September post reviewed by the Journal, Elez reportedly wrote: “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.”
Another post that same month encouraged users to “normalize Indian hate,” referring to the large number of Indian immigrants working in Silicon Valley’s technology sector.
After the White House was asked about the posts, press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed that Elez had quit government service.
According to the Journal, archival views of his X account with the handle @nullllptr exhibited a strong dislike for Indian technology workers.
In one December 2024 post, he wrote that ““99% of Indian H1Bs will be replaced by slightly smarter [large language models]” and later added: “They’re going back don’t worry guys.”
Another post found by the Journal expressed disdain for both sides of Israel’s war against Hamas.
Elez wrote: “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.”
DOGE, which is itself a Trump-era revamp of the US Digital Service — a White House technology “think tank” established during the Obama administration — has taken on outsized influence during President Donald Trump’s second term thus far due to the influence of Musk, who donated hundreds of millions of dollars to elect Trump in last year’s presidential election.
Reuters has reported that DOGE employees have commandeered the headquarters of the Office of Personnel Management, shutting staff out of the computer system, and moving sofas onto the fifth floor.
They have used access to OPM systems to offer federal employees a “deferred resignation” program under which they would resign from government service in exchange for spending six months on payroll with no responsibilities.
A federal judge has paused the program pending a hearing on Monday.
