The Trump administration has removed the team of federal workers who helped build the IRS’s free tax-filing platform and reworked websites across government, a General Service Administration (GSA) spokesperson said on March 1.
The GSA’s director of technology transformation services, Thomas Shedd, notified the employees on a digital service team called 18F that they had been deemed “non-critical” and their jobs were terminated, locking out roughly 90 employees from their devices. The IRS’s free direct-file tax website is currently still online.
