According to recent reports, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is preparing to fire thousands of probationary employees in cuts that are expected to come as early as next week. The news follows Elon Musk, who leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), meeting with senior leadership within the agency.
While reports are unclear as to exactly how many employees are expected to be laid off, the reduction in headcount is expected to be extensive. President Donald Trump has long maintained that he would claw back some of the $80 million in additional funding that was granted to the agency by Democrats in 2023.
Furthermore, it has been reported that DOGE recently requested access to the IRS system known as the Integrated Data Retrieval System used by agency employees to review tax information, issue notices, and update taxpayer records. Musk has maintained that he is seeking to uncover any fraud that may exist within the organization.
“We do find it rather odd that there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars, but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position,” Musk told the press while in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump. “We’re just curious as to where it came from.”
The American Tribune recently reported on the findings of the DOGE Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) that exposed massive fraud within the federal government, featuring the testimony of various expert witnesses. The administration seeks to close loopholes, improve payment systems, prevent fraudulent activity, and efficiently deploy taxpayer funds to work for the American people.
Dawn Royal, a certified welfare investigator and the Director of United Council on Welfare Fraud, claimed, “Investigators have also found themselves at odds with the career bureaucrats who recite watered down facts about fraud in order to promote their political agendas.”
Rep. William Timmons (R-SC) called out former President Joe Biden for his abuse of federal payment systems. “Joe Biden signed his name and wanted the American people to believe he had the ability to forgive $250 billion with a signature. Guess what? The Supreme Court ruled he did not. That’s our system of checks and balances,” he said.
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Timmons continued, “The President, Biden, he clearly was experiencing cognitive decline. He didn’t even have the ability to be charged with a crime as determined by his own Department of Justice. But he signs his name, and he thinks it gives a quarter of trillion dollars away, redistributes taxpayer dollars. It’s just crazy that we can’t come together to address the greatest national security threat facing this country, our debt.”
Watch MTG expose shockingly high rates of fraud within the federal government:
Stewart Whitson, the Senior Director of Federal Affairs at the Foundation for Government Accountability, said, “That would include repealing Biden’s disastrous Medicaid streamlining rule, which ties the hands of states trying to remove ineligible release….Congress can help President Trump’s DOJ’s effort by ensuring that entrenched partisan bureaucrats don’t stand in the way of reform so much as DOJ’s team of 30 found hundreds of billions of dollars funneled into wasteful, fraudulent and flat-out insane projects. But they’ve only scratched the surface if this much fraud has been exposed in just a few weeks. Imagine what else is buried under layers of red tape and government excuses.”