Member of Elon Musk's DOGE team resigns after racist posts resurface

A staffer connected to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency
resigned on Thursday after now-deleted racist social media posts were resurfaced.

The resignation was confirmed by a White House official who was not
authorized to speak publicly.

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old software engineer, was working inside the
Treasury Department to cut costs and root out fraud, as part of Musk's
DOGE effort. Elez was one of two temporary appointees at Treasury
connected to DOGE who have been granted access to a highly sensitive
Treasury system that processes trillions of dollars in payments every
year.
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The Wall Street Journal reported on a number of 2024 posts from an
account connected to Elez on Musk's X platform and noted that White
House officials confirmed his resignation after the paper pointed out
Elez's activity on the social media site.

"You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity," the account
wrote in September. "Normalize Indian hate," a separate post from that
month read.

In July of last year, the account posted: "Just for the record, I was
racist before it was cool."

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5289337/elon-musk-doge-treasury

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On Thu, 6 Feb 2025, JAB wrote:

Member of Elon Musk's DOGE team resigns after racist posts resurface

A staffer connected to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency resigned on Thursday after now-deleted racist social media posts were resurfaced.

The resignation was confirmed by a White House official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old software engineer, was working inside the
Treasury Department to cut costs and root out fraud, as part of Musk's
DOGE effort. Elez was one of two temporary appointees at Treasury
connected to DOGE who have been granted access to a highly sensitive
Treasury system that processes trillions of dollars in payments every
year.
...
...
The Wall Street Journal reported on a number of 2024 posts from an
account connected to Elez on Musk's X platform and noted that White
House officials confirmed his resignation after the paper pointed out
Elez's activity on the social media site.

"You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity," the account
wrote in September. "Normalize Indian hate," a separate post from that
month read.

In July of last year, the account posted: "Just for the record, I was
racist before it was cool."

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5289337/elon-musk-doge-treasury

Hahaha... so much for meritocracy and ending DEI! But hopefully this B.S.
will end soon. He can come and work for me if he wants, and there he can
tweet all the racist comments he wants, and no one in my company would
care at all.

I've benefitted greatly the past couple of years by being able to attract excellent technologists who are passionately anti-DEI. So in a way, it is
not good that the tech giants are ending their DEI programs, since those
have sent me a stream of good candidates. =(

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