The Contrarian: DOGE Is Not Here to Help With Your Taxes

None of what DOGE is doing is normal. There have been nine presidential transitions since the Privacy Act and the IRS tax privacy laws were enacted in the 1970s, and none of those transitions, until now, have seen an outright rejection of those vital reforms. We have systems in place to conduct audits, to investigate suspected waste, fraud, and abuse, and to modernize the IT used by federal agencies. None of them require giving unvetted political appointees high-level access to our most sensitive records.

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