White House confirms teenage Doge employee that “big ball” has resigned
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a White House The official confirmed to Fox News that a teenage employee with the nickname “Big Balls” has stepped down from his post at the Government’s Department of Efficiency (DOGE) and has been added to a recent shakeup within the department.
The current former employee of Doge is his real name, Edward Coristine, but last month he told Fox News anchor Jesse Watters that his nickname originally came from a LinkedIn social media account.
“I’ll use it as my LinkedIn username,” Coristine told Watters, spurring laughs from the host and Doge leaders. Elon Musk The rest of his team in the interview.
“Well, people on LinkedIn take themselves very seriously. They hate risk quite a bit and I was like, ‘Well, I hope it’s not either of those things.’ So I set it up and honestly, I didn’t think anyone would notice,” the Doge employee continued, laughing at the career-focused social media platform.
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According to White House officials, Edward Coristine, an employee of the Government Efficiency Bureau, has resigned from his position. (Screenshot/Fox News Channel)
Coristine, a 19-year-old college student and software developer, was criticized by Democrats and liberal media experts during Doge’s first weeks after investigating wasteful and fraudulent spending in the federal government. Many were angry at the inviolable government officials accessing and pursuing government records. Doge’s job.
In an interview with Watters, Coristine said he had looked up the US Treasury Department’s payment computer and found numerous outgoing payments from the federal government.
“So, one of our initiatives is to eradicate fraud and waste, and to do that, we started looking at the payment computers. And, as mentioned before, there’s no accounting on what kind of payments actually happen on the payment computer,” says Coristine. “Look at a specific line item. $20 million. ‘OK, what is this money going to?’ And for the majority of the payment system, it’s like, ‘Well, we really don’t know.’ ”
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He went on to say that the system for distributing taxpayer money is “literally neither check nor accountable,” adding that it is “a huge vector for fraud, waste, and abuse.”
Coristine’s resignation takes place less than a month after Musk left the institution.
Following the departure of the mask, several other Doge staff and special government officials departed.
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Musk leads the doji from the president Donald Trump He was appointed in January. The sector was tasked with cutting $2 trillion from the federal government’s budget through efforts to significantly reduce spending, government programs and federal workforce.
According to a website update on Doge’s website, Doge was tasked with cutting $2 trillion from its budget, but it saved about $180 billion by making assets sales, contract cancellations, reducing fraud and other costs.
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Savings lead to approximately $1,118 in savings per taxpayer, the website notes.
Gabriel Hays of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.