Marko Elez, the 25-year-old staffer Division of Authorities Effectivity staffer linked to a social media profile with racist posts, “will probably be introduced again,” shortly after he resigned, Elon Musk introduced on X.
Elez resigned from his function the place he reportedly had the ability to rewrite code in delicate funds methods on the US Treasury, as soon as The Wall Street Journal inquired about his connection to a deleted account. That account, which the Journal discovered beforehand had the username “@marko_elez,” referred to as for reinstating a “eugenic immigration coverage,” repealing the Civil Rights Act, and mentioned that “99% of Indian H1Bs will probably be changed by barely smarter LLMs.”
Musk posted a poll on X Friday asking if the DOGE staffer who “made inappropriate statements by way of a now deleted pseudonym” ought to be introduced again. As of that afternoon, 78 % of practically 400,000 respondents voted “sure.”
Vice President JD Vance weighed in to say that whereas he “clearly disagree[s] with a few of Elez’s posts,” he doesn’t consider that “silly social media exercise ought to break a child’s life.” Musk apparently agrees — he responded to Vance in a publish Friday afternoon, saying, “He will probably be introduced again. To err is human, to forgive divine.”
Elez isn’t the one DOGE staffer drawing scrutiny. 19-year-old Edward Coristine was fired from an internship at a cybersecurity firm in 2022 the place he was accused of leaking inner data to rivals, Bloomberg reports. Bloomberg additionally discovered a Discord account it linked to Coristine the place he claimed to nonetheless have entry to the corporate’s computer systems, however claimed he “by no means exploited it as a result of it’s simply not me.”