The Wall Street Journal reports 25-year-old DOGE staff member Marko Elez, who gained access to the Treasury Department’s central payments system, resigned Thursday after he was linked to a deleted social media account that advocated racism and eugenics, writing among other things, “Normalize Indian hate.”

In another apparent breach of sensitive data, CNN reports Energy Secretary Chris Wright granted a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern and DOGE staffer access to the Energy Department’s IT system. On his social media site X, Elon Musk has threatened reprisals, including for journalists, after Wired magazine named six of his young associates at DOGE, who are all between the ages of 19 and 24.

Meanwhile, the White House is preparing an executive order to cut thousands of jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services, including positions at the CDC and FDA. This comes as several dairy herds in Nevada have just tested positive for a new variant of the H5N1 bird flu virus, raising fresh concerns of a spillover into human populations and a new pandemic.