Democrat asks who will get 'Big Balls' in Musk, Trump 'divorce'

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Custody battles can be nasty

Democrat asks who will get 'Big Balls' in Musk, Trump 'divorce'

— USpolitics 🇺🇸 (@uspol.skyfleet.blue) 2025-06-05T13:56:52.863Z

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5334104-jared-moskowitz-donald-trump-elon-musk-big-beautiful-bill/

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) sarcastically highlighted President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s apparent rift over the “big, beautiful” spending bill during a hearing Wednesday by posing the question: What will happen to the teen tech wunderkind infamously known as “Big Balls”?

“Now that the national divorce is happening … who’s gonna get ‘Big Balls’?” Moskowitz asked during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. “I’m worried about him. The children always get caught in the middle.”

“If he’s out there, I just want him to know we are rooting for him,” the Florida Democrat added, referring to himself as “also a child of divorce.”

Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls,” was brought onto the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with his mentor Musk earlier this year near the start of Trump’s second presidency. He quickly drew attention for his age, the scope of his role in handling government information and his online moniker.

Coristine’s account on the social platform X is now set to private. The White House and federal Office of Personnel Management didn’t immediately respond to The Hill’s queries about the status of his employment with the federal government.

[yellowdogintexas]

1. I saw that bit on YouTube this morning. I love Moskowitz! He always knows how to get the dig in

The Democrats on that committee are awesome.

[SheltieLover]

2. Send him to juvie.

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3. 'Big Balls' DOGE Goon Hired Full-Time on Top Government Salary

This idiot is not qualified for any government job

‘Big Balls’ DOGE Goon Hired Full-Time on Top Government Salary’

Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, and Ethan Shaotran

“were meant to be gone after 130 days—but three Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers hired as restricted special government employees (SGEs) are now full time.”

#ddrm

— (@desderamona.bsky.social) 2025-06-05T14:03:01.905Z

https://www.thedailybeast.com/big-balls-doge-goon-hired-full-time-on-top-government-salary/

They were meant to be gone after 130 days—but three Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers hired as restricted special government employees (SGEs) are now full time.

Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, and Ethan Shaotran were brought on board in early February and have been made full time in the last two months, Wired reported.

Shaotran was made full time on April 10 and Coristine, who has been known as “Big Balls,” and Farritor on May 31, all of them retaining their title as “senior advisor.”

Prior to being made full time none of the trio drew a government salary but they are now receiving some of the highest possible salaries for government employees, according to documents seen by Wired.

The trio all had connections to Musk’s companies before joining DOGE. Shaotran took part in an xAI hackathon, Coristine worked at Neuralink, and Farritor completed an internship at SpaceX.