The Commission for the effectiveness of the US government (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, is preparing access to an ultra -sensitive tax system where there are detailed financial data of taxpayers and companies, say Monday, February 17 American media.
THE Washington Post Go have access to the draft agreement to allow an employee of the DOGE to work for a hundred and twenty days at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), with possible access to the various systems and databases, in particular the IDRS, particularly secure and limited. Arouing concerns within the American tax administration, this agreement would give employees the possibility of having “instant visual access to certain taxpayers’ files”, according to an IRS document Quoted by the Axios media.
An official of the Trump administration, whose words were reported by the newspaper, said that the DOGE needed to access the IDRS to “eliminate waste, fraud, abuse, and improve government performance”, ensuring that this was done in a “legal and appropriate security accreditation” framework.
A spokesperson for the White House, Harrison Fields, interviewed by NBC, also said that it was needed “direct access to the system to identify and solve” the problems, adding that the DOGE would continue to “highlight the fraud Let them discover, because the American people deserves to know what their government has spent the harshly earned money from their taxes. ” Representatives of the Treasury and IRS department have not yet responded to requests for comments at the moment.
The Doge already decried
The DOGE project of accessing these systems is part of the perspective, relayed by the press, of massive reduction in IRS workforce. The Republicans longly denounced the excessive workforce according to them of the IRS, from around 90,000 people to almost 100,000 in 2023.
However, the first works of the DOGE have already aroused several waves of concern about the fate of the confidential data that will be studied. The Commission being made up of several dozen young computer scientists without experience of the functioning of the federal state, searching the databases of the ministries to find sources of potential savings.
The creation of the Commission was ordered by Donald Trump during his accession to power at the end of January and his objective is to depth the US state apparatus to reduce public spending. It is led by Elon Musk and some of her first initiatives were the subject of legal recourse, arguing the dangers they weigh on sensitive personal data. THE Washington Post said Friday, citing six sources close to the file on condition of anonymity, that the Trump administration could put an end to the contract of nearly 9,000 employees who are still during trial, working specifically on the collection of the tax.
Several dozen former civil servants have already seized justice in return and accuse Elon Musk and the DOGE of having illegally accessed confidential data relating to American residents. An American federal judge has recently decided to prevent Elon Musk teams from accessing the personal data of millions of Americans kept by the US Treasury Department.