Elon Musk launched a poll on his social media platform X Friday to ask followers if he should rehire Marko Elez, a 25-year-old software engineer who had been working on the DOGE project that’s currently ransacking the federal government.

Much attention has been paid to the young Silicon Valley engineers working for Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, but the group has also hired high-powered legal talent.

The chatbot is part of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s ambitions to use AI and other technologies to cut costs and modernize the US government.

The decision came after Vice President JD Vance and then President Donald Trump backed the reinstatement of the staffer, Marko Elez.

Elon Musk “will be looking at education pretty quickly and he will be looking at military too," Trump said at a news conference Friday.

CNN senior investigative correspondent Kyung Lah takes a look into the operatives linked to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), whose work to slash public spending and reshape the federal bureaucracy has sent shockwaves through government agencies.

Angry and confused constituents have flooded the phone lines at the US Capitol this week, many of them asking questions about billionaire Elon Musk’s plans.

DOGE staffer Gavin Kliger is a Berkeley-educated computer scientist who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online.