The Ministry of Government Efficiency (Doge), led by Elon Musk, Will soon have access to an IRS system (IRS) system (IRS) that contains sensitive taxpayers information, FOX News has learned.
Doge has requested access to the IRS Integrated Data Retrieval System, With which IRS employees can view taxpayer accounts.
Harrison Fields, the main secretary of the White House, told Fox News in a statement that access to this system is needed to identify fraud and repair the system.
“Verspilling, fraud and abuse have been deeply rooted in our broken system for far too long,” Fields said. “Direct access to the system is needed to identify and repair it. Doge will continue to shine a light on the fraud they discover because the American people deserve to know what their government has spent their hard -earned tax dollars.”
Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are talking about Doge’s efforts to investigate wasting US government spending from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on 11 February 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty images)
In the IRS website states that the system employees “have immediate visual access to certain taxpayers accounts”. Other functions of the system include “Examination into account information and requesting returns”, entering transactions and collective information, and “automatically generating notifications, collection documents and other outputs.”
The Doge guided by Musk will soon have access to an IRS system that contains sensitive taxpayers information, FOX News has learned on Monday. (Samuel Corm/Bloomberg via getty images, file)
Musk leads DOGE to aggressively reducing government waste when it comes to federal spending under president Donald Trump. It is made through executive order and is a temporary organization in the White House that will spend 18 months performing his mission.
The group has received criticism of its access to federal systems, including the payment system of the Treasury Department, as well as steps to cancel federal contracts and make cuts at various agencies. Attorden General from 14 states sued to block Doge to gain access to federal data, the argument that Musk and the government of Trump are illegally reach.
The newly formed cost -saving agency scored a victory on Friday when a federal judge in Washington a request rejected To temporarily block it to gain access to sensitive data from the Work, Health and Human Services departments and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Michael Dorgan and Eric Revell from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
