JD Vance, whose wife is the daughter of Indian immigrants, advocated Friday for the rehiring of a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) engineer who was accused of posting “normalize Indian hate” on X.

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A controversy has emerged after Elon Musk announced the rehiring of a former Department of Government Efficiency employee, Marko Elez, who had previously been fired for racist comments. Despite Vice President JD Vance advocating for a second chance,

A staff member of the Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, resigned after being linked to a social media platform supporting racist

An employee from billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has resigned after he was linked to racist posts on a deleted social media account.

"This man has an Indian wife and children, and doesn’t even have the balls to stand up against racism towards them," one person wrote. "What a bad husband & dad."

Marko Elez, an employee at Elon Musk 's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has resigned after facing backlash for his racist social media posts. The controversy erupted after the Wall Street Journal unearthed the posts associated with an X account identified as @markoelez.

You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity. Normalize Indian hate,” Elez’s account read in September. The WSJ added

To err is human, to forgive divine” this is what the Department of Government Efficiency lead Elon Musk said while talking about his contemplation on rehiring a DOGE staffer who had been previously fired for posting racist comments.