The White House confirms that the employee of the teenager “ Big Balls ” resigned

A White House An official confirmed to Fox News that a teenage employee of the nickname “Big Balls” had resigned from his post to the Ministry of Government (DOGE), adding to the recent reshuffle within the department.

The employee of Doge Now -Former – whose real name is Edward Coristine – told Fox News Jesse Watters Watters last month that her nickname came from her social media account Linkedin.

“I use it as my LinkedIn username,” Coristine told Watters, causing laughter of the host as well as Doge Leader Elon Musk And the rest of his team during the interview.

“Well, LinkedIn’s people take themselves very seriously, and they are quite opposed to risks, and I said to myself:” Well, I don’t want to be none of these things. “So, I’m just, I put it and honestly, I did not think that anyone will notice:” The employee of Doge continued, making fun of the social media platform focused on the career.

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Edward Coristine, employee of the Ministry of Government, resigned from his post, according to a White House official. (Screenshot / Fox News Channel)

A 19 -year -old and software developer, Coristine, was criticized by democrats and liberal media experts during the first weeks of DOGE by investigating unnecessary and fraudulent expenses in the federal government. Many were upset by young people, irreverently named, a government employee has access to government files to continue Doge’s work.

During his interview with Watters, Coristine said he had traveled the US Treasury payment computers and found a multitude of outgoing payments from the federal government who lacked details on whom they were going and why.

“Thus, one of our initiatives is to eliminate fraud and waste, and to do this, we have started to examine the payment computers. And, as mentioned above, there is no payments accounting actually in the payment computer,” said Coristine. “You are looking at a specific line article – $ 20 million. You say to yourself:” Ok, what is this money is going by? “And for the majority of payment systems, it’s like:” Well, we don’t really know. “”

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He continued by saying that the system that distributes taxpayers’ money “has literally does not have checks or responsibility” towards the American taxpayer, adding that it is a “huge vector of fraud, waste and abuse”.

Coristine’s resignation comes less than a month after the agency’s Musk depart.

The departure of Musk was followed by the departure of several other employees and employees of the special government in Doge, which now includes Coristine.

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Musk runs Doge from the president Donald Trump took office in January. The ministry was responsible for cutting 2 dollars from the federal government’s budget thanks to efforts to reduce spending, government programs and federal workforce.

While DOGE was responsible for reducing 2 dollars of the budget, its efforts have led to around $ 180 billion in savings due to asset sales, contract cancellations, fraud payment reductions and other means of eliminating costs, according to an update on the DOGE website.

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The savings translate into around $ 1,118 of savings per taxpayer, notes the website.

Gabriel Hays of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.