Elon Musk’s DOGE seeks access to sensitive US tax data, sparking alarm. US President Donald Trump has embarked on a campaign to slash public spending. As of Sunday evening, the request had not been granted, the reports said. privacy experts say granting Musk access to private taxpayer data could be extraordinarily dangerous, according to ABC News. (DOGE) will continue to shine a light on the fraud they uncover as the American people deserve to know what their government has been spending their hard-earned tax dollars on,\” White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said. \”It takes direct access to the system to identify and fix it,\” Fields added. The IRS is preparing to lay off thousands of employees as soon as this week as part of Trump and Musk’s drive to shrink the federal workforce. The world’s richest man, Musk, is spearheading the drive to cut public spending deemed wasteful or contrary to his policies. The latest request is for DOGe officials to have broad access to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) systems, property and datasets. This includes the Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS), access to which is usually extremely limited and which offers \”instantaneous visual access to certain taxpayer accounts\”, according to the IRS.
