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 administrations 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 theres 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 theyre 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 administrations 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.

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Coristine is now working with the National Design Studio on the administrations 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 projects 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 Musks orbit before joining DOGE, spending several months at Neuralink, Musks brain-computer interface company, before later joining the government efficiency effort at 19.

"What I think is really special about America.gov is it presents a single point of entry to find all the information that you need," he added, including finding government services tailored to the user and asking questions with answers sourced from the federal government.

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Coristine pointed to Medicare as one example, saying Americans currently may have to move between Medicare.gov and the Social Security website to enroll in benefits.

"Companies, generally speaking, only have one website and everything is easy to find," he said. "We should have the same vision for the government."

The ambitions for America.gov also go beyond simply helping users find the right information. Coristine said the administration plans to make first-time passport applications fully digital, expanding beyond the online renewal system already available to eligible Americans.

"Specifically with passports, what were going to do is were gonna make

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