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Reddit
reddit.com â€ș r/economics â€ș elon musk's doge presence at the irs raises concerns about taxpayer data security, refund delays
r/Economics on Reddit: Elon Musk's DOGE presence at the IRS raises concerns about taxpayer data security, refund delays
February 17, 2025 - Did DOGE really ‘delete’ the tech division that helped create the IRS Direct File free tax filing service? ... ✚ Elon Musk-linked DOGE access to sensitive data raises serious questions. Now a jury finds he misled investors in a case tied to up to $2.6B in damages. When power, data, and accountability collide, something feels deeply wrong. ... EXPLOSIVE BREAKING NEWS- Elon Musk’s DOGE stole EVERYONE’S private Social Security data and took it to a private company
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Tax Policy Center
taxpolicycenter.org â€ș taxvox â€ș how-doges-access-irs-data-puts-taxpayer-information-risk
How DOGE’s Access To IRS Data Puts Taxpayer Information At Risk
February 20, 2025 - The Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has pressed the IRS for permission to access individual tax return information of US households and businesses. While the DOGE team says it needs taxpayer data to search out “waste, fraud, and abuse,” such a move puts ...
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Kiplinger
kiplinger.com â€ș home â€ș taxes
Your Tax Returns in Elon Musk's Hands? DOGE IRS Data Request Raises Privacy Concerns | Kiplinger
February 22, 2025 - The White House confirmed DOGE's desire to access the IRS database, with spokesperson Harrison Fields defending the effort to reporters: “Waste, fraud, and abuse have been deeply entrenched in our broken system for far too long. It takes direct access to the system to identify and fix it,” Fields said.
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Washington Post
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What in the DOGE is happening at the IRS? - The Washington Post
March 3, 2025 - In today’s edition 
 Majority of Americans disapprove of Trump ... Johnson emphasizes desire for a stopgap CR.
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Reddit
reddit.com â€ș r/asktrumpsupporters â€ș how do you feel about elon musk's doge working to obtain access in real time to your tax records?
r/AskTrumpSupporters on Reddit: How do you feel about Elon Musk's DOGE working to obtain access in real time to your tax records?
February 17, 2025 -

I just learned today that DOGE is seeking to get access to taxpayer data at the IRS. The access he seems to be after (according to various articles) is the Integrated Data Retrieval System which enables employees “to have instantaneous visual access to certain taxpayer accounts,”

(source: https://apnews.com/article/doge-treasury-irs-taxpayer-data-musk-7d6b80e429106250afa6d02e55a981b1 )

What I'm really curious to know is how do Trump supporters feel about this? I mean, a guy from the outside being able to access your personally data instantly like that is scary as heck to me, but I want to know more what you folks think of this. Is it Ok? Is that part of the whole package you voted for? Or are you all seething mad? Enraged? I have no visibility on this and no clue.

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House Oversight Committee
oversight.house.gov â€ș home â€ș press releases â€ș hearing wrap up: doge subcommittee’s first hearing uncovers billions lost to fraud and improper payments, launches “war on waste”
Hearing Wrap Up: DOGE Subcommittee’s First Hearing Uncovers Billions Lost to Fraud and Improper Payments, Launches “War on Waste" - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
February 13, 2025 - Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) blasted DOGE Subcommittee Democrats for defending schemes to defraud American taxpayers. He also pointed out that self-verification systems at local doctors’ offices are more secure than federal payment systems. Rep. Burchett: “The gravy train for a lot of these folks, it’s been on biscuit wheels. It’s about to run off the dadgum tracks. It’s about done. Could you imagine standing up here and defending waste, fraud, and abuse?
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AP News
apnews.com â€ș article â€ș doge-treasury-irs-taxpayer-data-musk-7d6b80e429106250afa6d02e55a981b1
Elon Musk's DOGE seeks access to taxpayer data at IRS: AP sources
Advocates fear that the potential unlawful release of taxpayer records could be used to maliciously target Americans, violate their privacy and create other ramifications. Harrison Fields, a White House spokesman, said in an emailed statement that “waste, fraud, and abuse have been deeply entrenched in our broken system for far too long. It takes direct access to the system to identify and fix it.” ... “DOGE will continue to shine a light on the fraud they uncover as the American people deserve to know what their government has been spending their hard earned tax dollars on,” he said.
Published   February 18, 2025
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The American Tribune
theamericantribune.com â€ș utterly-ridiculous-americans-sound-off-as-doge-exposes-tax-dollars-funding-every-pet-leftist-project-while-normal-people-struggle-to-pay-bills
Utterly Ridiculous": Americans Sound Off As DOGE Exposes Tax Dollars "Funding Every Pet Leftist Project" While Normal People Struggle To Pay Bills - The American Tribune.com
March 28, 2025 - To conclude their post, DOGE explained even more cases of shocking waste. It posted, “$3M to “enhance social security access and worker protections for internal migrant workers” in Bangladesh – $3M for “safe and inclusive work environments” in Lesotho.” · In the comments section under the original post, users congratulated DOGE on their savings. One of the users said, “When you’re tossing around someone else’s cash instead of your own, there’s no drive to trim expenses since the fallout doesn’t hit you directly. Keep racking up those savings, DOGE!” · Others expressed their suspicion about US foreign aid. One of the comments said, “These third-world NGOs can never be audited. Once the money is gone, there’s no telling where it went. It’s nothing but a giant money laundering scheme with vague labels on it.” Another reply agreed, saying, “I am deeply disturbed by what is being found, and while albeit grateful it is being ended, I fear what is not being identified.” ...
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Kansas City Star
kansascity.com â€ș opinion â€ș opn-columns-blogs â€ș david-mastio â€ș article303845541.html
A new DOGE disaster is coming with tax enforcers at the Justice Department | Opinion
April 11, 2025 - Don’t like people who fraudulently steal government benefits? These guys enforce the law for giveaways in the tax code. A couple months ago, it was Tax Enforcement lawyers who brought a Las Vegas woman to justice for stealing stealing $100 million in COVID-19 tax credits. You’d think the DOGE kids would love this kind of efficient government looking out for your interests. You’d think that Trump, in particular, would like their role in prosecuting identity theft that involves stealing people’s tax refunds by filing fraudulent tax returns. That’s a crime often connected to the undocumented immigrants our president so dislikes. I am not a fan of paying my taxes. I pay as little as I can, which is still a bunch. But I want everybody to pay their fair share. That’s the only way a country like ours can work and popular things like the military, Social Security and Medicare can be paid for.
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Discern Report
discernreport.com â€ș doge-reveals-the-five-most-outrageous-ways-our-taxes-have-been-wasted
DOGE Reveals the Five “Most Outrageous” Ways Our Taxes Have Been Wasted
May 3, 2025 - (WND News Center)—A new report posted at Fox News, based on comments from DOGE employees during an interview with Jesse Watters, reveals the “most outrageous” ways those on the taxpayers’ payroll wasted tax money.
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Public Citizen
citizen.org â€ș home â€ș articles â€ș doge delusions
DOGE Delusions - Public Citizen
January 15, 2025 - On the campaign trail in October, Musk said that DOGE would cut $2 trillion in annual spending as part of an anti-tax agenda: “I think we can do at least $2 trillion. 
 I mean, at the end of the day, you’re being taxed. You’re being taxed. All government spending is taxation. 
 All government spending, either it becomes inflation or its direct taxation. Your money is being wasted.
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U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal
blumenthal.senate.gov â€ș newsroom â€ș press â€ș release â€ș 07 â€ș 31 â€ș 2025 â€ș the-217-billion-blunder-new-psi-report-reveals-billions-in-taxpayer-dollars-squandered-by-doge
The $21.7 Billion Blunder: New PSI Report Reveals Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Squandered by DOGE | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut
Ironically, the $21.7 billion in DOGE-generated waste could have fully covered President Trump’s misguided rescissions package twice over with $2.9 billion to spare despite the package being promoted as codifying DOGE’s purported savings over the next several years. DOGE’s $21.7 billion in government waste could have also been used to:
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Congress.gov
congress.gov â€ș event â€ș 119th-congress â€ș house-event â€ș LC74933 â€ș text
LOCKING IN THE DOGE CUTS: ENDING WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE FOR GOOD | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
Part of the problem, I think, with DOGE---- Mr. Burlison. The answer is yes or no. Do not eat up my time. Is there a single one that you would have agreed with? Ms. DiVito. I do not think there is a yes or no answer to that question. Mr. Burlison. Okay. Well, I am not going to waste my time. I want to dive into Mr. Burton and what you said. So, the question is what should happen to force Congress to actually make these cuts that have been identified?
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WorldNetDaily
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DOGE reveals 5 'most outrageous' ways taxes were wasted * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
May 2, 2025 - President Donald Trump launched the Department of Government Efficiency when he took office, and officials there have reported cutting at least $160 billion in waste, fraud and abuse. During Trump’s first 100 days. DOGE chief Elon Musk and his team joined Watters, and revealed that the U.S. Institute for Peace had tried to pay Mohammad Qasem Halimi $132,000 by contract. Get the hottest, most important news stories on the Internet – delivered FREE to your inbox as soon as they break! Take just 30 seconds and sign up for WND's Email News Alerts! The trouble is he is a former member of the Taliban, and was detained by the U.S. and held at Bagram Air Base for a year beginning Jan. 2, 2002. The report noted he held several positions in Afghanistan’s government. A staff member told Watters, “A small agency called the United States Institute of Peace is definitely the agency we’ve had the most fight at.
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CNN
cnn.com â€ș 2025 â€ș 04 â€ș 15 â€ș politics â€ș doge-irs-takeover-taxpayer-data-immigration
How DOGE led a ‘hostile takeover’ at the IRS to use taxpayer data for immigration crackdowns | CNN Politics
April 15, 2025 - In addition to Krause, the chief financial officer, the chief risk officer, the chief information officer, the agency’s chief of staff and Walters, the chief privacy officer, are all leaving. And the chief HR officer was placed on leave after clashing with DOGE staff earlier this year. “It’s pretty much a bloodbath,” a former senior IRS official told CNN. “These are all great people, passionate civil servants who were asking the right questions,” another former senior IRS official said about the mass resignations. “Taxpayers should be happy that these questions were being asked and that they were raising significant concerns.” · The chaos at the IRS, has also spurred a crisis for undocumented immigrants who are already on high alert amid Trump’s deportation push. “Our clients are freaking out,” immigration lawyer Neil Weinrib said in an interview. “In the 40 years that I’ve been practicing immigration law, I’ve never seen anything like this.
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Quora
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What are some of the top most outrageous ways the government has wasted your taxes, as uncovered by Elon Musk's DOGE? - Quora
Answer (1 of 2): Well let's just look into that
Elon’s companies have received $38 billion in government funding in the form of loans, contracts,subsidies and tax credits
then Elon gets in a tif and moves to Texas and gets more help. Elon makes no mention of this in his DOGE advisory position bu...
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Wweek
wweek.com â€ș news â€ș dr-know â€ș 2025 â€ș 03 â€ș 01 â€ș do-we-still-have-to-pay-taxes-with-doge-running-amok
Do We Still Have to Pay Taxes With DOGE Running Amok?
March 1, 2025 - Anyway, the good news is that the path of tax resistance is well trodden. The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, for example, has been providing instruction for conscientious tax resisters like you since 1982.