A 25-year-old DOGE staffer who a federal judge ruled could continue to access U.S. Treasury payment systems on Thursday morning was gone by the end of the day after his racist posts to X emerged.
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has wrested control of the federal government from career civil servants in the early days of Donald Trump's second term. Marko Elez was a “special government employee” embedded at the Treasury as a part of DOGE. The federal funding slashing wunderkind and Musk lackey didn't account for his bigoted social media posts being uncovered by the Wall Street Journal, however.
