A few days ago, we brought you a report that top DOGE employee Edward Coristine — a.k.a ‘Big Balls’ — had resigned from his role in the government.
But now, we are happy to provide an update that he is now back working for the Trump administration.
Big Balls is now tackling waste and fraud over at the Social Security Administration.
Check it out:
JUST IN: DOGE’s Big Balls is BACK in the Trump administration, a WH official tells Wired
LET’S GO!
Edward “Big Balls” Coristine is now working full-time within the Social Security Administration identifying the RAMPANT waste, fraud, and abuse that plagues the agency. pic.twitter.com/nHaEw9TQ2k
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 26, 2025
BREAKING: “Big Balls” has returned to the Trump administration – WIRED
After working at DOGE, the 19-year-old is now at the Social Security Administration.
Welcome back! pic.twitter.com/ySlgN9QENZ
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 26, 2025
Wired provided an update to their original report on his resignation:
Multiple sources at the SSA tell WIRED that Coristine has appeared in person to work on-site at the agency’s Woodlawn, Maryland headquarters. One SSA employee says they saw Coristine with DOGE engineer Aram Moghaddassi, a current X and former Neuralink employee deployed at the agency. The pair was spotted at the SSA cafeteria as recently as Monday, although it’s unclear what day this week Coristine’s employment officially began. “Coristine looked nervous, almost embarrassed,” the SSA source says. “Aram was on the phone with someone … then said ‘Yes I’m with him right now,’ gesturing to Big Balls.’”
ADVERTISEMENTCoristine and Moghaddassi did not immediately reply to requests for comment.
Coristine’s re-hiring comes after a White House official told WIRED on Tuesday that the 19-year-old had resigned from his position in government. A Trump administration official confirms to WIRED that Coristine did indeed resign on Monday, and then was brought back by the SSA later in the week.
Notably, Coristine was brought on to the SSA as a special government employee — the same status given to Elon Musk during the several months he led DOGE.
Under this designation, he can provide his services to the administration for a temporary period of up to 130 days.
The New York Times confirmed:
Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old high-profile operative for the Department of Government Efficiency, has joined the Social Security Administration, according to two Trump administration officials.
“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,” said Stephen McGraw, a spokesman for the Social Security agency.
A White House official said on Tuesday that Mr. Coristine had resigned entirely from the federal government. However, the official later said Mr. Coristine had in fact resigned only from the General Services Administration, the agency DOGE has used to coordinate many of its activities, citing an internal miscommunication.
Mr. Coristine, known by the online pseudonym “Big Balls,” is joining Social Security as a special government employee, an executive branch appointee named to “perform important, but limited, services to the government, with or without compensation, for a period not to exceed 130 days” during a one-year period, according to Mr. McGraw and the White House official, who was not authorized to speak publicly.
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God Bless this young man and all the others like him who are working very hard — much harder, dare I say, than most actual, elected Congressmen — to make things better.
We are glad to have him back!
Gotta respect how this kid already did more for government accountability before 20 than 90% of the federal workforce will do in a lifetime.
— Hank
(@HANKonX) June 26, 2025
We need more talent like him working for our government:
HELL YES!!!!!
AMERICA NEEDS MORE PEOPLE LIKE BIG BALLS!!!!
In all seriousness, the US government needs to better incentivize talented people to work for it.
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) June 26, 2025
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