Elon Musk Rehiring DOGE Staffer Who Resigned Over Racist Tweets

Elon Musk is rehiring the guy who resigned from DOGE yesterday. And we can’t say that we’re entirely surprised.

Musk launched a poll on his social media platform X Friday to ask followers if he should rehire Marko Elez, a 25-year-old software engineer who had been working on the DOGE project that’s currently ransacking the federal government. Elez resigned Thursday after he was linked to a since-deleted account on X with tweets like, “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.”

“Bring back @DOGE staffer who made inappropriate statements via a now deleted pseudonym?” Musk asked in an X poll around 9:15 a.m. ET.

The poll closed about two hours later with the final vote showing 78% voting yes and 22% voting no, which will come as no surprise to anyone who’s been on X in recent months. The social media site has become a cesspool of racist hate, MAGA extremism, and holocaust denial ever since Musk bought the company back when it was known as Twitter in late 2022.

Musk then tweeted Friday afternoon that Elez, who was uncovered as being associated with an X account called @nullllptr by the Wall Street Journal, will be rehired. “He will be brought back,” Musk tweeted. “To err is human, to forgive divine.”