A White House official declared that Mr. Musk was not the administrator of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. So who is?

Edward Coristine, a former intern at Neuralink and now known by his infamous LinkedIn profile handle “bigballs,” is one of the core members of the DOGE team and the youngest-known Musk aide at age 19, TechCrunch has confirmed.

A legal filing claims Musk has no formal authority to make decisions and seeks to create distance between the president and his “first buddy.”