Rehiring Treasury staff from Musk despite racist tweets

Elon Musk On Friday he said he would rehire. Doge Staff resigned from the Treasury mail after revelations in his tweets defending racism and eugenics.

His mask announcement on social media platform X came after Vice President jd vance He urged Musk to hire staff. Donald Trump View has been approved.

“He will be brought back,” Musk, the head of Doge, wrote to X, upon Vance’s recommendation.

“False is human beings and forgive God,” Musk wrote.

Less than an hour later, Trump was asked about a post from a former 25-year-old staff member. Marco Ellesand Vance’s opinion that he should be returned to Doge.

“Well, I don’t know anything about certain things,” Trump told Japanese Prime Minister Isgar at a press conference at the White House.

“But if the Vice President said that – did you say that? – I’m with the Vice President,” Trump said.

Erez resigned on Thursday Wall Street Journal We asked the White House about Erez’s connection to the X account that created the inflammatory tweet.

On Friday morning, Musk launched a poll about X. We asked users if Elez should be rehired by the so-called government efficiency team.

Vance answered the poll and said Erez should rejoin Doge.

“Here’s my view. I clearly disagree with some of Erez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activities should ruin a child’s life,” Vance told X. I am writing.

“We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people, ever,” Vance said.

“So I say I’ll bring him back,” the vice president wrote. “If he’s a bad guy or a terrible member of the team, fire him for that.”

Later on Friday, Vance defended his views in a fierce exchange with D-Calif MP Ro Khanna over one of the posts from an account linked to Elez.

“Are you going to tell him to apologize before this rehiring by saying, “I will normalize India’s hatred”? ” Kanna, an Indian-American, asked Vance at X.

Vance, who is also Indian-American, shot back Kanna that she should “grow”;

“Racists on the Internet, although offensive, do not threaten my children. Do you know what to do? A culture that denis grace to people who make mistakes. Lawmakers are whimsical “A culture that encourages people to act like children.”

Vance added in another post: “You hate me.”

Erez is Dogethis is up to Trump to reduce federal spending and reduce the US government’s workforce.

Trump has expelled Democrats on the National Labor Relations Committee and Democrats on the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee since taking office, having acquired staff from the Department of Justice and FBI since taking office.

The account linked to Erez tweeted in September that “we were unable to pay me to marry anyone other than my ethnicity.”

In the same month, the account tweeted “normalizes hatred in India,” referring to a post that focuses on the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley,” the journal reported.

These posts came after Vance was nominated as Trump’s running mate.

Vance is married to Usha Vance, the first Indian-American and the first Hindu to become the second woman in America. Vance is a Scottish descent.

Last summer, the same account tweeted, “I was racist before it turned cool, just for the record.” A few weeks ago, he posted, “If both Gaza and Israel were wiped off the surface of the earth, I wouldn’t mind at all.”

Musk, he is also CEO. Teslalaunched a poll on X with questions on Friday morning. “Did you take home the @doge staff and make an inappropriate statement via the now-deleted pseudonym?”

The poll, which ended around 11:15am, dropped over 385,000 votes.

Of these votes, 78% said they should bring Erez home, and 22% voted no on that question.

On Thursday, before he left, Erez and another Doge staff, designated as special government officials, were approved by a federal judge to have access to the U.S. Treasury payment system. The judges limited their ability to share data from that highly sensitive system with others.

Elez previously worked for X and another Musk Company, SpaceX.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bescent said Bloomberg On Thursday, he personally reviewed one of two finance officers on Musk’s Doge team. It was not clear if the person was Erez.

“These are highly trained experts,” Beast told Bloomberg. “This isn’t a running roving band doing things.”

Energy Secretary Chris Wright spoke about Doge employees being deployed to his department in an interview with CNBC’s Brian Sullivan on Friday.

“The government is getting older and maybe a little tough,” Wright said. “We have young kids. We’ve been looking at how things are run critically, thinking of young gun management consultants.”

“I’ve heard these rumors and they’re like seeing our nuclear secrets. That’s not true at all,” Wright said. “They don’t have security clearance.”

CNN Previously, we reported that Doge staff have access to the IT systems in the Energy sector.

– CNBC Spencer Kimball And I contributed to this article.