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Opened Feb 10, 2025 by Verla Davies@verladavies19
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Musk Polls whether DOGE Staffer who made Racist Posts Ought to Return


DOGE head Elon Musk is carrying out an online poll about whether to offer another opportunity to his 25-year-old aide who resigned after his posts in favor of eugenics were exposed.

Musk's online survey came hours after Marko Elez, the aide who was combating to gain access to a database with Treasury payments totaling trillions, stepped down.

He resigned after posts under a pseudonym, including a call to 'normalize' Indian hate, were discovered. One boasted he was 'racist before it was cool.'

Musk, whose real and viewed influence has actually grown to the point that he is imagined on the cover of the current Time magazine seated behind the presidential Resolute Desk, raised the problem in the type of a concern.

'Revive @DOGE staffer who made improper statements through a now erased pseudonym?' the billionaire SpaceX and Tesla creator asked.

The survey rapidly brought in 4 million views on X, showing Musk's reach on the platform he bought and relabelled.

His poll just enables users to respond with a 'yes' or 'no.'

The outcomes were unambiguous. Out of nearly 400,000 actions, those who participated preferred the reinstatement of Elez by 78 percent to 22 percent.

But Musk provided more clarity on his posture in action to another X user.

S.E. Robinson, who explains himself as a details broker for multiple Musk business, published that Elez 'should have a second opportunity ... Seriously though, have a speak with about the racist stuff. Not cool.'

DOGE head Elon Musk posted an online survey asking whether Marko Elez, who resigned after racist posts were discovered, must be restored. Elez graduated with a computer technology degree from Rutgers University and went on to work for Musk's SpaceX, Starlink, and X, with a focus predominately in AI

'True,' Musk reacted.

Elez's name only emerged after a court battle over accessing Treasury's $5 trillion payment system.

Within hours, the Wall Street Journal had pursued his posts from a now-deleted account.

Musk presently notes his title on X as 'White House Tech Support', a saucy missive that nonetheless points to the value of the information his young group is seeking to gain access to.

Musk's poll, offering a possible ammo for Elez to be reinstated, comes as DOGE is under increased scrutiny for gaining access to government firm details systems.

He is placing senior federal government officials on leave as he looks for $1 trillion in savings by slashing personnel.

DOGE notified 9,400 USAID employees they will be fired, with plans just to retain 611 deemed necessary.

It came as the firm suddenly remembered employees stationed overseas as part of its foreign help objective, provoking wails from congressional Democrats that Trump was in impact removing an agency authorized and funded by Congress.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has actually been called acting head of the agency.

President Trump has long been understood to be careful of aides who eclipse him in the spotlight. In the occasion that the Time cover photo wasn't useful, Musk left no doubt online about his appreciation for Trump.

'I love @realDonaldTrump as much as a straight man can love another male,' he published.

Elez was one of two staff members at the Department of Government Efficiency gave 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 'promoted reversing the Civil Rights Act and backed a "eugenic migration policy".'

Other check out 'You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity', and 'stabilize Indian hate.'

Another supposedly read: 'Just for annunciogratis.net the record, I was racist before it was cool.'

The account likewise weighed in on the Israel-Palestine crisis, with a post that read: 'I would incline at all if Gaza and Israel were both rubbed out the face of the Earth.'

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt later said that Elez had resigned from his role.

Elez finished with a computer science degree from Rutgers University and went on to work for wavedream.wiki Musk's SpaceX, Starlink, and X, with a focus predominately in AI.

Musk performed a survey about restoring a DOGE staffer he said made 'inappropriate statements'

Marko Elez was among two workers at the Department of Government Efficiency granted access to $5trillion in the Treasury payment systems following an 11th hour court hearing on Thursday

Musk has actually been happily documenting the work of DOGE on X, stimulating demonstrations on the streets as furious lefties shout 'Deport Musk,' 'Down with Trump' and 'Do your Job Congress!'

It follows a desperate court demand to restrict DOGE's access to Treasury's $5trillion system - the very first hiccup for the nascent company after weeks of ruthlessly purging federal institutions to get rid of waste and overspending.

Over the coming days and weeks, the court's decision on privacy issues about DOGE's access to the data will be a significant test of their power to infiltrate and wipe out government spending.

Lawyers with the Justice Department consented to a movement that enables only two people associated with Musk 'read-only' access to the system - including income tax return and social security numbers - on the condition that they do not share what they discover with coworkers.

Those two workers were Musk disciples Tom Krause and Elez.

Virginia Congressman Don Beyer explained Elez' resignation as 'a scandal.'

'Elon Musk provided a self-described 'racist' and eugenicist access to a system that manages all monetary payments from the U.S. Treasury,' he said.

'That system likewise contains the individual details consisting of Social Security details of every American.

'This is why we have a process to vet civil servants, and why we employ and promote them based upon benefit, not their personal relationship to some abundant guy.

'How attempt Elon Musk bully and threaten excellent people who spent their careers serving the American people when he brings this level of gross incompetence to his work.'

He required everyone who was associated with hiring Elez be 'fired' and said DOGE 'needs to be deleted' in its entirety.

Musk has faced criticism for his decision to work with a hand-picked group of young, college aged men to help him purge federal companies and remove waste.

This week, six men aged in between 19 and 25 were openly identified as DOGE employees.

The earliest of the lot is 25-year-old Berkeley graduate Gavin Kliger, who while not determined as having leading level clearance has actually currently shown he wields significant power.

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