Teen DOGE staffer 'Big Balls' has gone to work for the Social Security Administration

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

June 25, 2025, 12:39 AM EDT / Updated June 27, 2025, 7:32 AM EDT


The Social Security Administration said Thursday that it had hired Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old nicknamed “Big Balls” who the White House said earlier in the week had left the Trump administration. Coristine joined the Social Security Administration this week as a special government employee, a type of temporary position with relatively few disclosure obligations, the benefits agency said.

“His work will be focused on improving the functionality of the Social Security website and advancing our mission of delivering more efficient service to the American people,” Stephen McGraw, a Social Security spokesperson, said in a statement.

Coristine was one of the original staff members of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. He drew wide public attention not only because of his nickname but also because of his youthfulness and his job history, having been fired from an internship at a cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets, according to Bloomberg News.

His age and lack of experience came to symbolize DOGE for many of its critics, including federal workers and congressional Democrats who said it was acting recklessly in its quest to slash spending.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/teen-doge-staffer-big-balls-left-trump-administration-rcna214900

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[pfitz59]

1. The little shit should be in prison

No background checks? Security Clearance? 19 and untested? Untrustworthy? Pay? What exactly does he have access to?

[yorkster]

2. He's gone to work ON the SSA more like.

[Captain Zero]

8. Scraping more data. Installing backdoors

I'm sure.

[yorkster]

9. Terrifying to contemplate..

[SupportSanity]

3. He's working FOR the SSA -- or -- he's working ON the SSA. Making America worse.

Unusual and mysterious problems will start happening.

[Bayard]

7. Finishing the job they started

[Attilatheblond]

4. Swell, as if retirees don't have enough to keep us awake at night

[ultralite001]

5. "Big Balls"...

is not to be trusted...

[lapfog_1]

6. big balls reminds me of "The Carver" from HBO Silicon Valley

19 year old who thinks they are god's gift to programming and computers.

[Dan]

10. We must remember Edward Coristine as one of the people that destroyed our nation.

[mdbl]

11. Other than the SSA website having blackouts SINCE mr BBalls started working there

Was it ever a problem using it? I never found it problematic until now.

[SunSeeker]

12. He will do NOTHING for Social Security recipients' wait time on the phone.

This is all about going after immigrants.

[moniss]

13. So now the rat is officially inside as an employee and

anything and everything about us will be at his disposal.

[mpcamb]

14. Has he in any way been vetted yet? He was kicked off his first job for sharing info with a competitor.

[Prairie Gates]

15. Top priority for a Dem Congress would be to rein in "special government employees"

It may have seemed like a good idea or necessary adjustment, but it clearly relies on people of good faith and is therefore bad law.

[LudwigPastorius]

16. I can think of nothing more reassuring than to have your retirement's financial security depend upon...

some person who calls himself "Big Balls".

[yellow dahlia]

17. Aaargh. WTF!? He left DOGE to be embedded in the SSA?

All very sketchy!