BURSTRep. 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.
Several DOGE employees departed the Trump administration along with Musk last week, including adviser Steve Davis, spokesperson Katie Miller and lawyer James Burnham.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO expressed gratitude to Trump at the end of his special government employee role but has since emerged as a voracious critic of the Trump-backed GOP megabill the House passed last month.
"I'm sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination," Musk posted Tuesday on the social platform X, another business he owns.
The billionaire continued to blast the bill, urging his X followers Wednesday to "Call your Senator, Call your Congressman, Bankrupting America is NOT ok! KILL the BILL."
The sprawling "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is now up for consideration in the Senate, where lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have spoken out against it.