Marko Elez was on the DOGE team formed by Elon Musk and tasked by President Donald Trump with cutting federal spending and reducing the government workforce.

Summary

JD Vance called for the rehiring of Marko Elez, a 25-year-old DOGE staffer who resigned after The Wall Street Journal exposed his racist and eugenicist tweets.

Elon Musk polled users on X about reinstating Elez, with 78% supporting his return.

Vance, while disagreeing with Elez’s posts, opposed “rewarding journalists who try to destroy people.”

Elez had access to the U.S. Treasury’s payment system before resigning.

  • Veedem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    691·
    23 hours ago

    “We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever,” said Vance, referring to the fact that The Wall Street Journal on Thursday exposed Elez’s connection to an X account that made the inflammatory tweets.

    Destroy people by simply pointing out what those people said lol.

    • Dashi@lemmy.world
      46·
      22 hours ago

      And what they said RECENTLY too. They were not dredging up tweets from 40 years ago. If memory serves these tweets were within the year.

      • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        16 hours ago

        In September!!!

        The account linked to Elez tweeted in September, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.”

        The same month, the account tweeted ″‘Normalize Indian hate,’ referring to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley,” the Journal reported.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
        4·
        18 hours ago

        To be fair it’s hard to have old social media posts when you’re still drinking milk.