White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will restore “faith and trust” in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Miller joined Fox News on Monday, spreading concerns that Doge wanted access to an IRS system known as the Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS). He was asked if secret, confidential information from Americans was in the hands of Doge officials.
“I give you my words… The only thing going on here is restoring neutrality, ethics, accountability to the IRS and ensuring it is at the system level at the payment level. There's been fair politicization and unfair targeting happening,” Miller said.
He added that action is taking place. “We have faith and confidence in the IRS and are not stolen by Americans.”
Top Democrats in Congress are seeking responses Doge will be making in the IRS, requesting contracts the agency has signed with Musk's team and, if any, information that includes taxpayer information has been handed over. Masu.
IDRS is a system that agents use to receive access to taxpayer accounts. IRS employees can request tax returns, generate notifications, and enter data into taxpayer files.
Doge officials are also concerned as they gained access to the Treasury Department's payment system, which manages $6 trillion in federal funds, including Social Security, federal grants and tax records for Americans.
Doge has set up an account on IRS and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) social platform X.
In Doge's defense, Miller said Monday that the federal government will not catch “small fractions” of the fraud that takes place. By gaining access to the system, the Trump administration can target tax fraud and “protect the integrity of these systems on which Americans rely.”
“When we talk about doges, who are we talking about?” Miller said. “We're talking about staff appointed as president of the United States, appointed by the president reporting to the White House.”
“It's part of the formal federal infrastructure, which is the highest level you can have, as opposed to a career civil servant who has been completely immune to all forms of accountability up until now. “It's accountability,” he added.
