After a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer resigned this week due to pressure from a Wall Street Journal reporter with a background at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Elon Musk, Vice President JD Vance, and President Donald Trump all stepped in to get the 25-year-old back on the DOGE team.
Marko Elez resigned on Thursday after journalist Katherine Long dug up social media posts Elez published under a now-deleted pseudonym. Some of the alleged posts include, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” “Normalize Indian hate,” and “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.”
Musk ran a poll on Thursday, asking X users to weigh in on Elez’s ouster, to which 78% of respondents said the staffer should be brought back to the DOGE team. VP Vance, commenting on the poll, agreed, writing, “I don’t think stupid…
