Until Thursday, most people have only known Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) through the scandals of its mostly young and male team as they have rampaged through the U.S. government with a metaphorical axe.
Its most well-known staffer, besides Musk, has been a 19-year-old high-school-grad coder affectionately known as “Big Balls” with a mysterious past, and a 24-year-old software engineer who was fired and rehired after racist tweets from an old social media account were discovered.
