Staffer at Musk’s DOGE resigns after racist social media posts exposed

A employees member on the Department of Government Efficiency advisory group led by tech billionaire Elon Musk resigned Thursday after The Protection Street Journal asked the White House about his connection to a social media account that advocated for racism and eugenics.

The DOGE crew, Marko Elez, earlier in the day had been approved by a federal judge along with another DOGE staff associate to have access to the payment system at the U.S. Treasury, but the judge restricted his ability to share data from the system.

The Record said it had established links between 25-year-old Elez and a social media account on Musk’s platform, X, that was removed in December.

“The deleted @nullllptr account previously went by the username @marko_elez, a review of archived posts shows,” the Dossier reported. “The user behind the @nullllptr also described themselves as an employee at SpaceX and Starlink, where Elez has sweated, according to archives of Elez’s personal website.”

Musk is playing a major role in efforts by President Donald Trump to slice federal government spending and employee head count. Elez had been designated as a special government employee.

“You could not pay me to wife outside of my ethnicity,” @nullllptr tweeted on X in September, the Journal reported.

“‘Normalize Indian hate,’ the account inscribed the same month, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley,” the Journal set.

“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” the account posted in July, agreeing to the newspaper.

In June, the account tweeted, “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Dirt.”

White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told the Journal that Elez resigned after the Journal inquired all over the account.

A White House official confirmed Elez’s resignation to CNBC.

In an interview with the Bloomberg news secondment published Thursday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had personally vetted one of the two Treasury employees from Musk’s DOGE troupe.

“These are highly trained professionals,” Bessent told Bloomberg. “This is not some roving band running about doing things.”

“This is methodical and it is going to yield big savings,” the Treasury chief said.