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One of Elon Musk's trusted DOGE staffers has resigned from his position after his links to racist social media posts promoting eugenics were discovered. Marko Elez was among two staff members at the Department of Government Efficiency granted access to $5trillion in the Treasury payment systems following an 11th hour court hearing on Thursday.

But by Thursday afternoon, the 25-year-old relied on Musk ally had actually resigned after The Wall Street Journal probed his links to the since-deleted social media account. According to the publication, the X account 'promoted rescinding the Civil liberty Act and galgbtqhistoryproject.org backed a 'eugenic immigration policy'.' Other posts presumably read 'You might not pay me to wed beyond my ethnic culture', and 'stabilize Indian hate.' Another presumably read: 'Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.' The account likewise weighed in on the Israel-Palestine crisis, with a post that checked out: 'I would at all if Gaza and Israel were both cleaned off the face of the Earth.'

White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said that Elez (imagined) had actually resigned from his role. Elez graduated with a computer science degree from Rutgers University and went on to work for Musk's SpaceX, Starlink, and X, with a focus predominately in AI. It comes after a desperate court request to limit DOGE's access to Treasury's $5trillion system - the very first misstep for the nascent agency after weeks of ruthlessly purging federal organizations to eliminate waste and overspending.

Over the coming days and weeks, the court's choice on personal privacy issues about DOGE's access to the data will be a significant test of their power to penetrate and erase government costs. Lawyers with the Justice Department agreed to a motion that allows just 2 people associated with Musk 'read-only' access to the system - consisting of income tax return and social security numbers - on the condition that they do not share what they find with colleagues.

Those 2 employees are Musk disciples Tom Krause and Elez. Virginia Congressman Don Beyer explained Elez' resignation as 'a scandal.' 'Elon Musk offered a self-described 'racist' and eugenicist access to a system that controls all monetary payments from the U.S. Treasury,' he said. 'That system also contains the personal details including Social Security details of every American. This is why we have a procedure to vet civil servants, and why we work with and promote them based upon merit, not their individual relationship to some rich guy. How attempt Elon Musk bully and threaten excellent people who spent their careers serving the American individuals when he brings this level of gross incompetence to his work.'

He required everybody who was included in hiring Elez be 'fired' and said DOGE 'should be deleted' in its whole. Musk has faced criticism for his choice to hire a hand-picked group of young, college aged men to help him purge federal firms and get rid of waste. This week, six men aged in between 19 and 25 were publicly identified as DOGE staff members.

At just 19, Edward Coristine (pictured) is the youngest of the fresh-faced bunch taking on business America and longstanding federal government institutions. According to WIRED, he's been called an 'professional' in his field, and specifics about his role aren't yet clear.

Akash Bobba, 21, Ethan Shaotran, 22, and Luke Farritor, 23, in addition to Coristine, have reportedly been approved A-suite level clearance for their work, implying they can work out of the company's top floor with access to all physical areas and IT systems. Musk's DOGE has been rapidly growing in power and broadening its remit, most recently protecting clearance to access to restricted parts of the General Services Administration structures and IT systems.

The earliest of the lot is 25-year-old Berkeley graduate Gavin Kliger (pictured), who while not determined as having top level clearance has actually already proven he wields substantial power. Finally, Gautier Cole Killian has been named for his role with DOGE, which is reportedly on a 'volunteer' basis at this phase.

After prevalent criticism about the males's youth, Musk released a statement about the consultations. 'Time to confess: Media reports stating that DOGE has some of world's best software application engineers remain in truth true,' Musk wrote on X.

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