From Fox News: A White House official confirmed to Fox News that a teenaged employee with the nickname “Big Balls” has resigned from his post at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), adding to the recent shakeup within the department.
The now-former DOGE employee – whose real name is Edward Coristine – told Fox News anchor Jesse Watters last month that his nickname originally came from his LinkedIn social media account.
“I use it as my LinkedIn username,” Coristine told Watters, prompting laughter from the host as well as DOGE leader Elon Musk and the rest of his team at the interview.
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Wired was first to report on Coristine’s departure.
A 19-year-old college student and software developer, Coristine was criticized by Democrats and liberal media pundits during DOGE’s first few weeks of investigating wasteful and fraudulent spending in the federal government. Many were upset about the young, irreverently named government employee being given access to government records to pursue DOGE’s work.
Wired wrote: Coristine, according to Lavingia, was one of a small group of technologists who were highly trusted within DOGE and deployed across multiple federal agencies, and given multiple federal laptops.
Wired also noted that Coristine previously worked at Neuralink for several months and founded a company called Tesla.Sexy LLC in 2021.
It is unclear why Coristine resigned from DOGE.
During his appearance with the DOGE team on the Jesse Waters show in early May, Coristine revealed some of the shocking discoveries made when auditing the Treasury Department payments.
“So, one of our initiatives is to root out fraud and waste, and to do that we started looking at the payment computers. And, as mentioned earlier, there’s no accounting of what payments actually go to in the payment computer,” Coristine explained.
“You look at a specific line item — $20 million. You’re like, ‘OK, what is this money going to?’ And for the majority of payment systems, it’s like, ‘Well, we don’t really know.’”
Coristine voiced his concern that the very agency that distributes taxpayer money “literally has no checks and no accountability” to the American taxpayer, and said it is a “huge vector for fraud, waste, and abuse.”
NEW: Big Balls no longer works for the United States government, has resigned according to WIRED.
DOGE legend Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old high school graduate, resigned yesterday according to the White House.
“Coristine received full-time employment status at the GSA late… pic.twitter.com/2fA7AfUqYe
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 24, 2025
Yeah, very true. DOGE was a good experience but this kid’s ceiling is much higher.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 25, 2025
🚨 HOLD UP! Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, Musk’s 19-year-old DOGE dynamo, just bounced from DC, and I’m torn—this kid was a MAGA beast!
Handpicked by Elon, blessed by Trump, he had the swamp sweating, ripping through red tape like a boss.
His exit’s got me wondering: is Musk… pic.twitter.com/TXTQeaAXEj
— Dr Vincent Sativa 🇺🇸 (@The_Weed_Shop) June 24, 2025
SCOOP: ‘Big Balls’ has officially left the building. 19-year-old technologist Edward Coristine, a key operative in Elon Musk’s DOGE who’s gone by the name “Big Balls” online, has resigned, the White House tells WIRED.https://t.co/PJa0GZAI5D
— WIRED (@WIRED) June 24, 2025
Teen nicknamed ‘Big Balls’ leaves Trump’s cost-cutting team after exposing wasteful spending https://t.co/f3TPsq027U
— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) June 25, 2025
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