‘Big Balls’ of DOGE fame gives exclusive look at new Trump mission to overhaul government
Edward Coristine, the former DOGE engineer better known as "Big Balls," is now helping build the Trump administration’s new digital front door to the federal government — an effort aimed...
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Edward Coristine, the former DOGE engineer better known as "Big Balls," is now helping build the Trump administration’s new digital front door to the federal government — an effort aimed at giving Americans one place to navigate information and, eventually, complete services now spread across thousands of government websites. "I think that the fact that there’s 29,000 government websites is pretty insane," Coristine told Fox News Digital in a sit-down interview. "And it is the citizens’ objective to have to go figure out which government website they’re supposed to use for each specific thing." Coristine — better known around Washington by his attention-grabbing "Big Balls" nickname — sat down with Fox News Digital at the White House to talk about his new role helping build America.gov , what he learned during his time at DOGE, the administration’s plans to make more government services fully digital, his experience being attacked in Washington, and how the nickname that helped make him famous actually came from his dad. TRUMP UNVEILS AMERICA.GOV AS AI-POWERED HUB FOR PASSPORTS, MEDICARE ENROLLMENT AND MORE Coristine is now working with the National Design Studio on the administration’s revamped America.gov , which launched Sept. 29 as an AI-powered single point of entry for information drawn from thousands of government websites. President Donald Trump singled out Coristine during the launch, identifying him as the project’s lead engineer and thanking him for his work. Coristine said his time at DOGE gave him a firsthand look at the frustration Americans face when trying to navigate federal services and helped shape what he is working on now. "I think we got a lot of feedback that the American government is hard to interact with because you have to navigate the maze of bureaucratic services," Coristine said. The software engineer had already worked in Musk’s orbit before joining DOGE, spending several months at Neuralink, Musk’s brain-computer interface company, b…