A Department of Government Efficiency staffer who resigned final month over racist social media posts is again on the company and has entry to delicate authorities programs, in line with court docket paperwork.
Marko Elez’s comeback was revealed as a part of a lawsuit introduced by labor unions that alleges a number of federal businesses gave “unlawful” entry of “protected data” to DOGE employees, itemizing Elez as one of many workers.
The 25-year-old has been again at DOGE since not less than March 5 and has been assigned to the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services, in line with the submitting. He has entry to a number of delicate programs at HHS, together with the database that helps states implement youngster help orders, the submitting exhibits.
Elez’s return, first reported by Politico, comes after President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk — who oversees DOGE — called for him to be brought back. Elez, who beforehand labored for Musk’s firm SpaceX, resigned in February on the heels of a Wall Street Journal report that linked him to a social media account with posts supporting racism and eugenics.
That account posted a name to repeal the Civil Rights Act, an endorsement of a “eugenic” immigration coverage and repeated anti-Indian screeds inside the final yr, in line with archived posts.
“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 stated on X on the time.
Prior to his resignation, Elez was designated as a “special government employee” by the manager department and had entry to the pc system utilized by the Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service to chop greater than $5 trillion in checks for the federal authorities annually, in line with legal professionals for the Justice Department.
NCS has reached out to the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services for remark.