The Interior Tax Services Building in Washington, DC was on February 13, 2025
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Internal tax service employees, affiliated with Ministry of Government Efficiency Government officials said an IRS system has been accessed that can accommodate sensitive taxpayer information.
Grant employees access to an integrated data retrieval system, which allows IRS Staff Access the taxpayer account.
IDR allows employees to “instantaneously access certain taxpayer accounts.” IRS website. The system can be used to “research account information and request proceeds” and to “automatically generate notifications, collect documents and other outputs.”
According to the IRS website, IDRS users “have the right to access only the accounts required to perform their official duties.”
The person who can use IDRS is an IRS employee The second Trump administration The official confirmed that it has affiliation with Doge. The employee is performing a “Doge Mission” and is acting under a legal security permit, the official said.
“Waste, fraud and abuse have been deeply rooted in our broken systems,” said White House spokesman Harrison Fields. “It requires direct access to the system to identify and fix it.”
Fields added: “The Governor will continue to articulate the fraud they found because the American people should know that their government has been spending their hard taxes.”
The IRS did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday night.
This move is first reported Washington Postmarking an expansion of Doge’s efforts to access sensitive information held by the federal government.
Doge, led by Elon Musk, has zeroed several government agencies and departments to cut the spending that the government portrays it as wasted. Doge’s purpose is to reduce the members of the federal workforce.
NBC News has Previous reports Doge has visited the U.S. Department of Treasury Payment System, which stores sensitive information such as social security numbers. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also said earlier this month that President Donald Trump has authorized Musk to obtain FEMA disaster data.
The group also targets the Consumer Financial Protection Agency and the U.S. International Development Agency.
