On Monday in June 23. Edward “Big Ball” Coristine was one of the first young, inexperienced technicians to join Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and disappeared from the internal directory of the General Services Administration (GSA). Less than a month ago, CEACTIONARE ELON MUSK and other Doge leaders announced their departure from the government. After months of cutting the federal government, it seems that Doge’s ending seems to be in sight.
But later that week, Coristine was back. This time, he worked with another well-known Doge member Aram Moghaddassi in the Social Security Agency (SSA). A SSA spokesman told Wired that Coristine will focus on “committing to improving the functionality of the Social Security website and promoting our mission to provide more effective services to the American people.”
Coristine disappeared from the government and suddenly appeared in the government, a symbol of Doge 2.0, a new iteration of the organization, a formal participation of Musk, remains very present and continues to carry out wholesale attacks on federal agencies. But without flashy leadership, Doge technicians are now quietly riding bikes to federal agencies, spending days or weeks making products and cutting contracts, and then riding bikes again. This is all done by little oversight by the White House or the US Threshold Service (USD), which technicians allegedly represent the services.
The White House and Musk did not respond to requests for comment.
Old-style federal workers in government agencies were told that the Governor branch was their colleagues as agent employees, not part of a separate organization.
“We used to say ‘Doge wants to look back on X, Y, Z.’. But now, our boss says don’t call them Doge anymore,” said a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employee. At the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), another federal employee told Wired that Doge is now known as the “USDA Digital Service.”
When Musk left the government as an official capacity, it was not clear what would happen. Steve Davis, president of Musk’s Boring Company, also announced his withdrawal, which he announced. However, Wired learned that Davis still appears to be communicating with Doge’s technicians and seems to continue to influence U.S. government staff from within the Musk Empire.
Sahil Lavingia, a former Governor General who previously stationed in Virginia and in Virginia (VA), claims Davis is not completely broken with Doge. “I just heard he was still involved, he was still meeting people and trying to push the Governor’s agenda,” he said. Another government source who asked to be anonymous for fear of revenge said they sometimes heard that David Representative sometimes spoke to Davis via signal after he was believed to have left.
“It just takes you seriously to be there,” Lavingia said. “The whole operation has been done on the signal, so there is really nothing that can change the operation to keep telling people what to do, receive reports, etc… You don’t need a government laptop or email or something like that to tell people what to do.”
