Elon Musk Bringing Back DOGE Staffer Who Shared Racist Posts Online
www.newsweek.com

... On Friday, Elon Musk announced that he will bring back Marko Elez, a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staff member who resigned from a Treasury Department position after his controversial tweets promoting racism and eugenics were exposed by the Wall Street Journal.

Musk made this announcement on his social media platform, X, following Vice President JD Vance's urging, and later on Friday, President Donald Trump's endorsement of the rehiring at a news conference.

"He will be brought back," Musk, the head of DOGE, wrote on X in response to Vance's post. ...

www.wired.com

... A 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies, has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government, three sources tell WIRED.

Two of those sources say that Elez's privileges include the ability not just to read but to write code on two of the most sensitive systems in the US government: the Payment Automation Manager and Secure Payment System at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS). Housed on a secure mainframe, these systems control, on a granular level, government payments that in their totality amount to more than a fifth of the US economy. ...