REPORT: Key DOGE staffer resigns after leftist journalist digs up past social media posts

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One of the two DOGE staff members who had been allowed to remain accessing the spending data at the U.S. Treasury has now resigned, after a journalist, Katherine Long, with the Wall Street Journal, dug into his past social media posts.

Below are excerpts from the Wall Street Journal: A key DOGE staff member who gained access to the Treasury Department’s central-payments system resigned Thursday after he was linked to a deleted social-media account that advocated racism and eugenics.

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old who is part of a cadre of Elon Musk lieutenants deployed by the Department of Government Efficiency to scrutinize federal spending, resigned after The Wall Street Journal asked the White House about his connection to the account.

In recent days, Elez had emerged at the center of a legal battle over access to sensitive taxpayer information and systems the Treasury Department uses to process trillions of dollars in payments annually.

Thursday morning, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that Elez could continue to access the department’s payment systems, but limited his ability to share the data. Elez resigned later that same day.

Statements found on Elez’s old social media account include:

In July 2024: “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.”

In Sept. 2024: “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.”

Also in Sept.: “Normalize Indian hate,” in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt reportedly confirmed that Elez had resigned from his role at DOGE.

Elon Musk responding by blasting the WSJ journalist, saying, “She’s a disgusting and cruel person.”

Podcaster Mario Nawfal wrote:

Katherine Long, a WSJ reporter with connections to USAID, just doxxed DOGE team member Marko Elez and got him fired—conveniently targeting him as DOGE audits her former agency. This isn’t journalism. It’s retaliation.

Long has a track record of politically motivated attacks—she smeared Bill Ackman’s wife during the Claudine Gay scandal and spent years pushing woke agendas in gaming.

Now she’s abusing her platform to go after DOGE team. Should a USAID-linked operative still have White House access?

“She should be fired immediately,” declared Musk.

Katherine Long gloated that she got Elez to resign.  Sharing a link to her report, she wrote:

“I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity. He just resigned.

“This is a good time to note that I started at the Wall Street Journal last week! If you work with or around DOGE, I’d love to speak with you. My email address is [email protected] and I’m on Signal at longka.38. Use a non-work device to contact me.”

Upon learning about Long’s connections to USAID, Elon Musk declared, “What the hell? Certainly improper, possibly criminal.”

Musk then posted a poll on whether Elez should be brought back.

Long has gone after others in the past:

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