Fetterman blasts Musk over DOGE, IRS [View all]

(The Hill) Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) went after tech billionaire Elon Musk over a report that his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been trying to access an IRS system.

“I want to save billions of your money and make our government more efficient. Rummaging through your personal s‑‑‑ is *not* that. A party of chaos loses—always,” Fetterman said Monday in a post on the social platform X.

His post featured a screenshot of a Politico headline from a report on DOGE’s attempts to access the IRS’s Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS). A White House official confirmed to Politico the IDRS access effort by DOGE.

DOGE, which Musk leads, has started accounts on X for the IRS and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) looking for “insights on finding and fixing waste, fraud and abuse” at both agencies. On Monday, Musk reposted messages from both accounts.

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