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| DOGE reveals next target [IRS] for nerd army audit... and Americans are thrilled |
| 2025-02-05 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Elon Musk teased the next target for his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) crackdown may be the Internal Revenue Service. The world's richest man asked his army of X followers in an informal poll whether they would like to see the IRS audited by DOGE, which received a staggering 94.3 percent support. Musk's post comes days after Donald Trump vowed to terminate almost 90,000 IRS workers who had been hired under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, a pledge that received huge cheers as he spoke at a rally in Las Vegas. 'They hired - were trying to hire 88,000 new workers to go with you, and we're in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them or maybe we move them to the border,' the President said to raucous applause. 'I think we're going to move them to the border where they are allowed to carry guns. You know, they're so strong on guns. But these people are allowed to carry guns. So, we will probably move them to the border.' Musk's post was met with widespread support, as just five percent of people said 'no' among millions of voters in the poll's first hours. If carried out, the IRS would join a growing list of federal agencies and government-funded organizations that have already felt DOGE's influence in the early days of Trump's second presidency. After gutting a raft of government spending in DOGE's first moves, attention turned this week to the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which Musk branded a 'criminal organization.' |
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