Marko Elez, a software engineer working on Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting initiative, resigned after past racist social media posts surfaced, raising concerns about DOGE’s influence.

Marko Elez is the 25-year-old DOGE staffer who reportedly had access to the U.S. Treasury’s most sensitive payment systems. But a Wall Street Journal reporter linked Elez to a now-deleted social media account full of racist and hateful statements,

A 25-year-old DOGE staffer who a federal judge ruled could continue to access U.S. Treasury payment systems on Thursday morning was gone by the end of the day after his racist posts to X emerged. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has wrested control of the federal government from career civil servants in the early days of Donald Trump 's second term.

Joining James in the statement were the attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Rhode Island and Vermont. President Donald Trump tapped Musk, the world’s richest man, to shrink the size of the U.S. government.

A coalition of labor groups filed suit Wednesday seeking to stop DOGE from coming to the Labor Department and gaining access to some of the world's most vital macroeconomic data. Why it matters: This isn't the first lawsuit against Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency,

The AFL-CIO and several of its affiliated government employee unions sued Wednesday over fears that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is on the cusp of unlawfully gaining access to the Labor Department.