Elez, a former employee at Musk’s companies X and SpaceX, was among two temporary appointees at the Treasury Department linked to the DOGE initiative. His role involved cost-cutting and fraud detection within the department.
Reports indicate that Elez had access to a highly sensitive Treasury system responsible for processing trillions of dollars in payments annually. However, following the resurfacing of his now-deleted racist social media posts, he stepped down from his position.
The Wall Street Journal reported on a number of 2024 posts from an account connected to Elez on Musk’s X platform.
“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” the account wrote in September. “Normalize Indian hate,” a separate post from that month read.
In July of last year, the account posted: “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.”
In other posts, from December, the account pushed for repealing the Civil Rights Act and shared: “I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask.”
