The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has set up accounts on IRS and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) social platform X, seeking “insights on searching and rectifying waste, fraud and abuse” at two agencies.
Elon Musk, who leads Doge's efforts to cut trillions of dollars in government spending, reposted messages from both accounts on Monday.
The new X account is used by agents to access taxpayer accounts as the DOGE team is seeking access to a sensitive IRS system known as the Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS). Because it's.
Two top Democrats, Sen. Ron Wyden (d-ore.) and Elizabeth Warren (d-mass.) wrote a letter Monday to play Doge's Doughras O'Donnell, Doge's delicate Regarding potential privacy violations seeking information about access to IRS systems and expressing concern.
“There is no executive order that requires the head of the agency to allow DOGE personnel to access IRS records or information technology systems,” they wrote.
“Software engineers who work for masks trying to access tax returns have the right to raise taxpayer data and send that data back to other parts of the federal government and, if they do, the law It could be that they're breaking it,” the senator continues.
The Doge team has moved from agency to agency on a cost-cutting mission, which frequently seeks access to technology infrastructure, raising concerns about data privacy and security.
Late last month, Doge staff clashed with longtime Treasury official David Lebryk, seeking access to the agency's sensitive federal payment system. Lebrick, who served as deputy secretary of finance prior to Scott Bescent's confirmation, was placed on leave and eventually resigned.
Two Doge employees, high-tech executive Tom Krause and 25-year-old Marko Elez, have received access to a system known as a financial service that handles 90% of federal payments.
They were meant to receive read-only access, but Erez “miseriously” received read-and-write access for a short period of time in early February, a recent court filing revealed. However, Erez never used writing privileges to make changes to the system, a Treasury official wrote in a declaration to the court.
Erez resigned shortly after the Wall Street Journal resurfaced several racist social media posts he created from his now-deleted accounts.
