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. While the judge did give him access, he restricted his ability to share data held within the system.

Marko Elez, a key figure in Musk’s DOGE agency, resigns after links to racist social media posts spark backlash.