DOGE Official Says IRS Can’t ‘Perform Basic Functions’ Without Billions for Consultants

DOGE has so far ’stopped work and cut about $1.5 billion from the modernization budget,' the representative said.

A file photo of the IRS building in Washington. AP Photo/J. David Ake, File

A Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) representative said that the IRS has a number of decades-old, infrastructure-related problems and said that recent cuts have allowed the agency to save $1.5 billion.

Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, DOGE representative Sam Corcos said that while “a huge part of our government is collecting taxes,” the IRS “cannot perform the basic functions of tax collection without paying a toll to all these contractors.”