CNBC reports:

Elon Musk said Friday he will rehire a DOGE staffer who resigned from a Treasury Department post after the exposure of his tweets advocating for racism and eugenics.

Musk’s announcement on his social media platform X came after Vice President JD Vance urged Musk to hire the staffer back and President Donald Trump endorsed the view.

“He will be brought back,” Musk, the head of DOGE, wrote on X in response to Vance’s recommendation.

“To err is human, to forgive divine,” Musk wrote.

Less than an hour earlier, Trump was asked about the posts by the 25-year-old former staffer, Marko Elez, and Vance’s opinion that he should be brought back to DOGE.

“Well, I don’t know about the particular thing,” Trump said during a press conference at the White House with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

“But if the vice president said that — did you say that? — I’m with the vice president,” Trump said. [Continue reading…]