An employee at Elon Musk’s DOGE has called it quits after his racist social media posts have come to light.
Musk was appointed as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) by President Donald Trump.
While it’s not technically a governmental department, the president revealed that it will act as an outside advisor for federal spending.
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DOGE was recently granted full access to the Treasury payment system but now one of the two staffers on the team who were given this access has quit his job.
This was after the White House was questioned about his history of racist social media posts.
These posts included supporting eugenics and the idea of repealing the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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According to a report made by The Wall Street Journal, programmer Marko Elez, 25, had an account on Musk’s social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
This is where he made controversial posts stating that he was in support of a ‘eugenic immigration policy’ along with other racist remarks.
In one post, Elez wrote: “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.”
In another, the former DOGE employee encouraged X users to ‘normalize Indian hate’, in reference to the large number of Indian immigrants that work in Silicon Valley’s tech sector.
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The White House was quizzed about these posts which led to press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealing that Elez had quit his role.
There have been growing concerns over the level of access Musk’s DOGE has, including the possibility that it may have access to confidential information including social security numbers and Medicare benefits payments.
Lindsay Owens, who is the executive director of economic think tank Groundwork Collaborative, previously shared her thoughts on the possible routes Musk could go down.
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In an op-ed for MSNBC, she said: “Musk could also get his hands on the ‘Do Not Pay’ system that lists individuals or contractors the government has blacklisted, theoretically granting him control over whom the government does business with.
“Government contracts have been central to Musk’s $400 billion net worth; his companies have signed billions of dollars’ worth of government contracts.
According to another report by Reuters, DOGES staff members have taken over the headquarters of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), leaving other employees shut out of the computer system, and have moved sofas onto the fifth floor so workers can sleep on site.
They have also used the access of the OPM systems to offer federal employees a ‘deferred resignation’ program.
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This means they would resign from government service but remain on the payroll for six months.
However, the buyout program has been put on pause for now by a federal judge pending a hearing.