<p>A key staff member of US President Donald Trump’s newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by Elon Musk, had resigned a day earlier after he was linked to racist social media posts.</p> <p>Marko Elez, 25, resigned Thursday after The Wall Street Journal linked him to a deleted social media account on X. He had made posts like, “I was racist before it was cool” and “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity”.</p> <p>In a post made in September, it said, “Normalize Indian hate”, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley. Vice President JD Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, is the daughter of Indian immigrants.</p> <p>In its report, The Wall Street Journal found a since-deleted account under the handle @nullllptr with a user described as an employee at SpaceX and Starlink, two of Musk’s companies. The account previously went by the username @marko_elez.</p> <p>According to BBC, the vice president had said earlier, that the young employee should be given a second chance. In a post on X, Vance said Elez should be brought back and blamed “journalists who try to destroy people.”</p> <p>“I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life,” Vance said. “I’m with the vice president,” Trump told a news conference Friday.</p> <p>However, a few hours later, Elon Musk said that he was bringing back Elez. Musk posted, “He will be brought back. To err is human, to forgive divine.”</p> <p>Earlier in the day, the administration had confirmed Elez’s resignation. The vice president stated that Elez should be fired “if he’s a bad dude or a terrible member of the team.”</p> <p>Elez was one of two DOGE employees at the centre of controversy this week after they accessed the US Treasury Department’s payment system, leading to a court challenge and a judge’s decision to restrict their access.</p> <p>According to the Associated Press (AP) report, Elez, in archives of his personal website, said he worked for SpaceX and on its Starlink satellites, and at X.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>ALSO READ: <span style="color: #e03e2d;"><a style="color: #e03e2d;" href="https://ift.tt/jQPDC5s Election Results: Counting Centres Prepare For Counting Of Votes Across 11 Districts — WATCH</a></span></strong></p>
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