Since the names of the younger, inexperienced people working for Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have become public, a flurry of reports have detailed their troubling histories of extremism and severe workplace infractions. One individual who resigned Thursday over revelations of racist posts on his X account has already been reinstated by Musk himself.
Perhaps more troubling was the news that, internally, the team that runs the Treasury Department’s payments systems believes DOGE is “the single greatest insider threat risk” it’s even seen. That warning came to light just minutes after it was reported that a 19-year-old working on the DOGE team was previously fired for leaking sensitive company information.
Musk’s reckless invasion of various government agencies, and his seemingly fanatical underlings’ total access to their…