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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has not spent a minute out of the spotlight since President Donald Trump entered office. The latest storm to hit the agency is the resignation of a key staff member on the advisory group led by the tech billionaire.  The staff, whose name is Marko Elez, stepped down from his position on Thursday after The Wall Street Journal asked the White House about his links to a racist social media account.  The timing of the revelation raises eyebrows  The revelation of DOGE staffer Marko Elez’s checkered past only happened after he had been approved by a federal judge along with another DOGE staff member to gain access to the payment system in the US Treasury only just earlier in the day. Notably, the judge did not give the DOGE staffers access to share private data from the system. According to the WSJ, it found links between 25-year-old Elez and an X (formerly Twitter) social media account that was deleted in December. It also shared that a review of archived posts showed the deleted account was previously named @marko_elez. “The user behind the @nullllptr also described themselves as an employee at SpaceX and Starlink, where Elez has worked, according to archives of Elez’s personal website,” the journal’s report read.  While nobody would like to cover for a racist, the timing of Elez’s secret coming to light intersects with a tumultuous period in the US as Musk’s DOGE continues to clean house in an attempt to cut excess spending.  Musk has already stepped on many toes as his task force continues to uncover excessive spending and wastefulness that has gone unnoticed under the cover of bureaucracy. DOGE’s actions have been met with mixed reactions, primarily resistance on the part of elected Democrats.  Elez was colorful…

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