DOGE staffer resigns over uncovered racist posts

Among his posts, Elez suggested nullifying the Civil Rights Act and enacting a “eugenic immigration policy.” In another post, as reported by WSJ, Elez wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” as well as “Normalize Indian hate,” a remark reportedly aimed at the large South Asian population in Silicon Valley.

As if there was any question about his beliefs, Elez also reportedly posted, “Just for the record. I was racist before it was cool.”

Elez has a long history of working for Musk as an employee of SpaceX, Starlink, and X before joining the DOGE team. In his latest role, he was one of the staffers who seized the U.S. Treasury and had administrator-level privileges on the Treasury Department’s payment systems.

That Elez was a seemingly a proud and avowed racist is not surprising considering that DOGE — which was ostensibly created to cut government spending — has instead focused on finding and abolishing all DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) programs. What is surprising is that he faced consequences for it in the current administration. Despite this, X users are pointing out Elez has seemingly retained his job at Musk’s social media platform.

As soon as the news broke, users on X began commenting on the story, expressing their lack of surprise that Elez was racist considering his connection to Musk, who gave a Nazi salute during Donald Trump’s inauguration and was a speaker at a rally for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in January, where he told the crowd they should not be ashamed of their history. We think you can decode what he meant by that remark.

"Of course perpetual fuckup @elonmusk set up a Department of Greenhorn Eugenecists. No surprise that an outspoken racist like @marko_elez is one of his best 'frenz.'"

"So it's safe to say racist DOGE employee Marko Elez was the first to take Trump's resignation offer?"

"So Marko Elez resigned from being a “special government employee” with the Treasury Department and Elon Musk still has him working at Twitter/X? Even after his racist/pro-eugenics posts? This tracks Considering he’s an AI guy, I wonder what Elon is going to ask him to do after he had access to all of our Treasury data?"

"Elon Musk had to have known this guy Marko Elez was racist as fuck. Musk can see everything people write here, even deleted shit. This is the type of people he wants to work for him."