Tech billionaire Elon Musk took to social media platform X to decide whether one of the agents who resigned on Thursday should be rehired after racist social media posts resurfaced I asked.
“Has anyone brought home the @Doge staff and made an inappropriate statement via the currently deleted pseudonym?” Musk I wrote Friday morning on X attached to a poll asking users to answer “yes” or “no”
As of 10:30am on Friday, there were 2.9 million views on the Post and over 232,000 votes. Over 80% of users answered “Yes.”
Marco Erez, 25, resigned on Thursday after temporarily serving Musk's Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force. He previously worked for many companies run by Musk.
Erez fired earlier this week Wall Street Journal Revealed racist, his social media post.
According to the journal, the accounts related to Erez, published in September “Normalizing India's Hatefulness,” are published about people of Indian ethnic groups working in the US technology sector.
According to the journal, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” the account wrote on X.
It is not clear whether Musk will restore Erez based on the outcome of X-public opinion, a method often used by billionaires to measure public opinion. Musk also sought the firing of the reporter who broke the story, calling him “a disgusting, cruel person.”
Vice President Vance said in a post late Friday morning that he “clearly” disagrees with some of Erez's posts.
“We shouldn't reward journalists who try to destroy people. “So I say I'll bring him back. If he's a bad guy or a terrible member of the team, I'll fire him for that. .”
Erez was one of two staff members who were given “read-only” access to a highly sensitive payment system at the Treasury, the agency said. However, many reports suggest that Erez has the ability to rewrite the basic code of the payment system.
The Justice Department agreed on Wednesday to limit the number of employees affiliated with DGOE who have access to sensitive federal payment systems. Under this order, Cloud Software Group CEOs Elez and Tom Krause were allowed to have access to financial services, but editing or modifying the system that manages 90% of federal payments is not possible. you can't.
New York Times An email was published in the meantime Krause and the newly appointed Chief of Staff of the Treasury show how Doge employees targeted payments from the US International Development Agency (USAID).
Musk and his Doge allies moved forward this week with an aggressive campaign to cut federal bureaucracy and spending. On his first day in office, Trump issued a federal government hiring a freeze, offering a postponed resignation package to thousands of workers.
USAID reportedly cut its employees from over 10,000 employees to less than 300 as part of the campaign.
Erez is one of many Kuji's agents who previously partnered with a mask company. Some of the staff at Doge have graduated from high school and university.
Updated at 1:38 PM ET
