Marko Elez, the DOGE staffer who resigned after racist social media posts including a call to "normalize Indian hate" surfaced, will return to work for Musk, the billionaire announced.

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old engineer, is the first of Elon Musk's DOGE crew to lose their job. 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.

The decision came after Vice President JD Vance and then President Donald Trump backed the reinstatement of the staffer, Marko Elez.