On Thursday, a 25-year-old staffer for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) abruptly resigned after the Wall Street Journal asked the White House to comment on incredibly racist social media posts linked to him. Maro Elez, an inexperienced recent university grad and former X employee, had been infiltrating the US Treasury's payments system. Despite Trump administration officials maintaining that he was limited to "read-only" access to the system, Wired had previously reported that he was able to make extensive changes under the hood. Naturally, the optics of a green operative with a highly problematic past are incredibly bad […]