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Opened Feb 09, 2025 by Adela Baine@adelabaine0415
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Elon Musk's new DOGE Staffer Quits Over Racist Social Media Posts


One of Elon Musk's relied on DOGE staffers has resigned from his position after his links to racist social networks posts promoting eugenics were uncovered. Marko Elez was among two staff members at the Department of Government Efficiency granted access to $5trillion in the Treasury payment 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 media account. According to the publication, the X account 'advocated rescinding the Civil liberty Act and backed a 'eugenic immigration policy'.' Other posts supposedly read 'You might not pay me to wed beyond my ethnic background', and 'stabilize Indian hate.' Another supposedly checked out: systemcheck-wiki.de '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 incline at all if Gaza and Israel were both rubbed out the face of the Earth.'

White House representative Karoline Leavitt said that Elez (pictured) had actually resigned from his role. 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. It comes after a desperate court request to limit DOGE's access to Treasury's $5trillion system - the very first hiccup for the nascent agency after weeks of ruthlessly purging federal organizations to remove waste and overspending.

Over the coming days and weeks, the court's choice on personal privacy concerns about DOGE's access to the data will be a monumental test of their power to penetrate and clean out government spending. Lawyers with the Justice Department concurred to a motion that permits only 2 people related to Musk 'read-only' access to the system - consisting of tax returns and social security numbers - on the condition that they do not share what they discover with associates.

Those two workers are Musk disciples Tom Krause and Elez. Virginia Congressman Don Beyer explained Elez' resignation as 'a scandal.' 'Elon Musk gave a self-described 'racist' and eugenicist access to a system that controls all financial payments from the U.S. Treasury,' he said. 'That system likewise contains the personal details including Social Security details of every American. This is why we have a process to vet civil servants, and gdprhub.eu why we hire and promote them based upon benefit, not their personal relationship to some abundant guy. How attempt Elon Musk bully and threaten good people who spent their careers serving the American individuals when he brings this level of gross incompetence to his work.'

He demanded everybody who was included in employing Elez be 'fired' and said DOGE 'ought to be deleted' in its whole. Musk has dealt with criticism for his choice to employ a hand-picked group of young, college aged men to assist him purge federal agencies and remove waste. Today, 6 men aged in between 19 and 25 were as DOGE staff members.

At simply 19, Edward Coristine (visualized) is the youngest of the fresh-faced lot taking on corporate America and longstanding federal government organizations. According to WIRED, he's been called an 'expert' in his field, and specifics about his function aren't yet clear.

Akash Bobba, 21, Ethan Shaotran, trademarketclassifieds.com 22, and Luke Farritor, 23, along with Coristine, have apparently been granted A-suite level clearance for their work, meaning they can work out of the company's leading flooring with access to all physical areas and koha-community.cz IT systems. Musk's DOGE has actually been quickly growing in power and broadening its remit, most just recently securing clearance to access to limited parts of the General Services Administration structures and IT systems.

The earliest of the lot is 25-year-old Berkeley graduate Gavin Kliger (visualized), who while not recognized as having top level clearance has actually already shown he wields significant power. Finally, Gautier Cole Killian has been called for his role with DOGE, which is supposedly on a 'volunteer' basis at this stage.

After widespread criticism about the males's youth, Musk released a declaration about the appointments. 'Time to confess: Media reports saying that DOGE has some of world's finest software engineers remain in fact real,' Musk wrote on X.

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Reference: adelabaine0415/sheiksandwiches#6