One of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency goons resigned Thursday amid growing inquiries over his links to a social media account pushing racism and eugenics theories.
Marko Elez, 25, was identified earlier this week as the engineer who was granted access to the Treasury’s “top-secret” payment system, which controlled social security and tax distributions.
Yet outside of helping his billionaire boss cut down federal inefficiencies, the Wall Street Journal reported that Elez may have used a secret social media account to push “eugenic immigration policy.”
“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” read a September X post from the now-deleted account. Another post urged, “Normalize Indian hate,” allegedly referring to Indian workers in Silicon Valley, reported WSJ.
When the Trump administration was asked about Elez’s connection with the account, spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said he had resigned, reported WSJ.
The account in question, @nullllptr, made several disparaging remarks about Indians and immigration in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election.
In a post appearing to be directed at Indian software engineers and Musk’s H1B fight, the account wrote, “99% of Indian H1Bs will be replaced by slightly smarter LLMs, they’re going back don’t worry guys.”
A July post by @nullllptr boasted, “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.”
Commenting on the Israel-Gaza war in July, a post read, “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.”
Elez and his colleagues reportedly left chaos and contempt in their wake as they systemically gained access to the federal government’s most sensitive databases and departments.
Allegations include screaming fits and physical altercations with security as the young staffers were met with resistance by some senior government workers.
Elez has worked for Musk’s SpaceX, Starlink, and X companies, focusing on artificial intelligence, reported WSJ.
The Daily Beast has reached out to Elez for comment.
People gather to protest outside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) headquarters after the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was charged with oversight of OPM, in Washington, U.S. February 2, 2025. / Kent Nishimura / Kent Nishimura/REUTERS
Three federal employee unions have sued the Trump administration for what they allege has been the illegal turn over of access to government records, The Guardian reported.
Piloting a plan to expedite DOGE’s inefficiency cuts, The Washington Post reported DOGE has been offloading sensitive information from the Department of Education into an artificial intelligence portal to let the tech determine what gets chopped.
When news broke that DOGE would be helping to “upgrade” the Federal Aviation’s air traffic control system, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton zinged the whiz kids over their age and experience.
“Most of them aren’t old enough to rent a car,” she tweeted.
Elez and his DOGE colleagues have all been reported to be under age 26, with one staffer as young as 19.
