Chris Hayes Hits ‘Big Balls’ After Fox News Interview: ‘Literal Teenager’
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes ripped the guy known as “Big Balls” in the “Department of Government Efficiency,” dismissing him on Friday as a “literal teenager” who has no business making decisions of great consequence.
On Thursday, Fox News’s Jesse Watters interviewed Elon Musk and the employees of DOGE, who have laid off tens of thousands of federal employees and frozen congressionally appropriated funds. Their actions have prompted a spate of lawsuits on constitutional grounds.
DOGE’s most notable, non-Musk employee is 19-year-old Edward Coristine, who goes by the moniker “Big Balls.” Watters sought an explanation for the nickname.
“People on LinkedIn take themselves like super seriously and they’re adverse [sic] to risk, and I was like, well, I want to be neither of those things, so I just said it, and honestly, I didn’t even think anyone would notice,” Coristine told Watters.
Hayes was not amused, to say the least. The host of All In noted that the Republican-controlled Congress has failed to assert its powers of the purse because its GOP members are content to let President Donald Trump take the heat for attempting to cut funding for popular federal initiatives, such as money for PBS, which airs Sesame Street.
“The Republican Congress is willing to let them because it allows them to slash spending, which they finally want to do on lots of these programs without being the ones who have to take the politically risky vote, to, say, end Alzheimer’s research as we know it, which is a thing they’re doing right now,” Hayes noted. “That is how you end up with literal teenagers, like this kid who worked on Elon Musk’s project to gut the government, a kid with the internet nickname ‘Big Balls,’ and other young men just like him, controlling all sorts of things, like whether, for instance, a [Veterans Affairs] nurse has a job or a park ranger has a job, or whether children with AIDS will get their medication that keeps them alive.”
Hayes aired a clip of Coristine explaining his nickname as Musk, and other DOGE employees chuckled.
“You’ve got to imagine how funny that is to the thousands of people from those who work in nuclear safety to biomedical research, to park rangers, to yes, in the V.A., how funny they think Big Balls is having been fired by him. I’m thinking maybe Big Balls did not grow up watching Sesame Street. Congress has been happy to have Elon Musk and Big Balls do this for them, despite the fact it is obviously, clearly, flagrantly unconstitutional and unlawful.”
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