thehill.com by Ashleigh Fields
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said Thursday that Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are now examining the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), warning against access to U.S. taxpayer data.
Democrats have sounded the alarm over DOGE and its leader, Elon Musk, attempting to overhaul the U.S. Agency for International Development and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and to gain access into the Treasury Department’s payment systems.
“My office is hearing that DOGE is now at the IRS. That means Musk’s henchmen are in a position to dig through a trove of data about every taxpayer in America,” Wyden wrote in a Thursday post on the social platform X, which Musk owns.
“And if your refund is delayed, they could very well be the reason.”
Sources familiar with the matter said a top DOGE employee arrived at the IRS headquarters to review operations and meet with senior executives at the tax-collecting agency, according to Reuters.
Reuters also reported that senior executives at the IRS were instructed in an email on Thursday to identify all “non-essential” contracts for termination…
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