After Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) made headlines for recommending shutting down of USAID, DOGE became the headlines when its 25-year-old staff, Marko Elez resigned following the unearthing of his past social media posts in which he called himself a racist. Those posts were not made in his name, but a pseudonym account which was suspended in December last year when Elez started to work for DOGE.
This snowballed into a major controversy as little was known about DOGE so far but now that they started visiting federal agencies, bureaucrats claimed that they are mostly youngsters with questionable background and no eligibility to question federal workers. They are all “tech kids” who dropped out of college.
Why Marko Elez resigned from DOGE
Wall Street Journal reported that Marko Elez made several problematic posts in the past like: “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.”; “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity. Normalize Indian hate” etc. Controversy over his past posts made him to resign, the Wall Street Journal said.
Elon Musk ran a poll on X whether DOGE should rehire him and as the majority voters were in favor of Marko Elez, Musk said he would rehire him. But Musl admitted that Elez made some mistakes. “To err is human,” Musk wrote.
Why JD Vance and Ro Khanna sparred on X
Vice president JD Vance offered his opinion on Elon Musk’s poll on Marko Elez and said he does not agree with what Elez wrote in past but he also believes that past social media activities should not ruin his life. Democrat Congressman Ro Khanna asked him whether he would seek an apology for the anti-India statement. “Just asking for the sake of both of our kids,” Ro Khanna wrote as their kids have Indian connection — Ro Khanna is an Indian-American and JD Vance’s wife Usha Vance has Indian origin.
The ‘children’ part seemingly irked JD Vance and he took it as an emotional blackmail. “I cannot overstate how much I loathe this emotional blackmail pretending to be concern. My kids, god willing, will be risk takers. They won’t think constantly about whether a flippant comment or a wrong viewpoint will follow them around for the rest of their lives. They will tell stupid jokes. They will develop views that they later think are wrong or even gross. I made mistakes as a kid, and thank God I grew up in a culture that encouraged me to grow and learn and feel remorse when I screwed up and offer grace when others did,” Vance wrote.
Ro Khanna replied that he was only doing an exchange of ideas.
Who is Katherine Long? Why Elon Musk calls her disgusting
Amid all this, journalist Katherine Long who wrote the Wall Street Journal piece on Marko Elez drew the ire of Elon Musk who called her disgusting. Social media posts claimed Long had USAID links.
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