Elon Musk has reinstated Marko Elez, a former DOGE employee, who resigned after his racist social media posts went viral.

Earlier on Thursday, a federal judge approved Elez and another DOGE staff member to access the U.S. Treasury payment system.

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.