Elon Musk has reinstated Marko Elez, a former DOGE employee, who resigned after his racist social media posts went viral.

While four-five youngsters of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency are at the centre of a massive controversy, about 30 people work at the White House's DOGE office including tech advisers,

The DOGE staffer has been identified as Marko Elez, and earlier in the day he had controversially been given approval by a federal judge to access the U.S. Treasury’s payments database, along with a second employee working for Musk (pictured). While the judge did give him access, he restricted his ability to share data held within the system.