Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon will welcome Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to address redundancies and waste in the Department of Defense—a comment that comes as controversy surrounds Musk’s powerful agency and questions of what it can and cannot do in different departments.

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.

A 25-year-old DOGE staffer who a federal judge ruled could continue to access U.S. Treasury payment systems on Thursday morning was gone by the end of the day after his racist posts to X emerged.