DOGE staffer resigns after reporters uncover racist posts

Marko Elez — the 25-year-old Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer who has reportedly been combing through the Treasury Department’s payment systems — resigned from his position after the Wall Street Journal uncovered an old social media account linked to him with numerous posts promoting racism and eugenics.

“99% of Indian H1Bs will be replaced by slightly smarter LLMs, they’re going back don’t worry guys,” the user of the since-deleted X account @nullllptr posted in December, amid the H-1B debate that divided the tech-right. The account’s previous handle was @marko_elez, according to the Journal’s report.

Other posts called for repealing the Civil Rights Act and reinstating a “eugenic immigration policy.” 

Elez — a former employee of SpaceX, Starling, and X — was one of the young DOGE employees tasked with spearheading Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government. As Wired previously reported, Elez was among the DOGE staffers who had direct, administrator-level privileges on the Treasury Department’s payment systems. Far from an apolitical effort to cut down expenses, DOGE has attempted to root out so-called “DEI” — short for …

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