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.

Elez resigned from his post at Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE, on Thursday after the Wall Street Journal uncovered that Elez had published racist statements on an anonymous account that once bore his name. However, on Friday, Musk confirmed he could bring Elez back to DOGE.

announced that he would rehire Marko Elez, a former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee, who had been previously fired for posting racist comments. The decision came after Elez resigned on February 6, following revelations of the offensive posts, which were uncovered by The Wall Street Journal.

The Department of Government Efficiency staff member, Marko Elez, resigned following revelations of his involvement with a racist social media account. This news comes in the wake of a legal dispute involving Elez’s access to sensitive Treasury Department data.

Musk said he would reinstate a DOGE staffer who resigned after social media posts surfaced of him advocating racism.