Wyden warned last week that Musk and DOGE – an advisory body tasked with slashing bureaucracy and trillions in federal spending – had launched a “full-scale authoritarian takeover” of the Treasury and urged the tech billionaire to “get your hands off our money and get the hell out.”.
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden said that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has moved on to examining the Internal Revenue Service, fuelling fears over access and the potential handling of highly sensitive data.
President Donald Trump said that while Musk’s department would turn its attention to the IRS, the agency wouldn’t be eliminated, a dream of libertarians within the Republican party.
It was not immediately clear whether the DOGE staffer directly accessed any IRS systems, but a source told CNN it seemed “he’s just getting a lay of the land at the moment.”.
It was not clear whether the president also wanted to eliminate federal corporate income and payroll taxes – which raises about half of the nearly $5 trillion in revenue the government collects annually.
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