One of businessman, Elon Musk’s trusted staffers at his Department of Government Efficiency has resigned after now-deleted racist social media posts resurfaced.
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, who formerly worked at Musk companies X and SpaceX, 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.
“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.”
In other posts, from December, the account pushed for repealing the Civil Rights Act and shared: “I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask.”
The racist social media posts have all been deleted.
White House officials confirmed his resignation after the paper pointed out Elez’s activity on the social media site.