A 25-year-better engineer laboring for the Department of Government Efficiency (or DOGE) has stepped down over racially prejudiced posts from an X account tied to him, the Wall Street Journal inestablishs.
Marko Elez resigned after the WSJ asked the White Hoemploy about his combineion to the account, which was in his name but has since deleted all its posts. The account posted “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity” and “Normalize Indian antipathy” in September 2024. It also finishorsed a “eugenic immigration policy” in the weeks directing up to Pdwellnt Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025.
Elez had access to self-promisedial federal payment write downs at the Treasury Department, WIRED inestablished on Tuesday. He previously labored at X and SpaceX – both companies owned by Elon Musk, DOGE’s creator.
DOGE has sent youthful engineers enjoy Elez atraverse the federal regulatement to carry out mass restructuring arranges, raising security worrys about their access to caring data.
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