DOGE Deputy Drops Latest Bombshell Revelations In Jarring Interview

A DOGE deputy blew the lid off problems plaguing the Internal Revenue Service as his team attempts to right the organization in the middle of its busy tax collection season.

Sam Corcos, now a special adviser to the U.S. Treasury Department, told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Thursday that contractors and special interests are siphoning off 80% of the tax agency’s $3.5 billion annual budget. When the Department of Government Efficiency dug into the matter, they found entrenched outside groups wrapped around the beleaguered IRS’s processes “like boa constrictors.”

“I have been brought in to look at the IRS’ modernization program, in particular, as well as the operations and maintenance budget. I really care a lot about this country, and this is a huge program that is currently 30 years behind schedule and it’s already $15 billion over budget,” Corcos said on “The Ingraham Angle.”

He explained how decades ago Congress approved funding to modernize the IRS’s computer systems and prepare for 21st-century tax and accountant methods employed by most or all of the nation’s flagship banks. While those private companies were able to make the shift quickly, Corcos said the government has been mired in an operation that has been promising a five-year horizon since the project first took shape in 1991.

“We’re now 35 years into this program. If you ask them now, it’s five years away, and it’s been five years away since 1990. It was supposed to be delivered in 1996, and it’s still five years away,” he said.

Scott Bessent, who was confirmed as President Donald Trump’s U.S. Treasury Secretary, told Ingraham “one of the biggest surprises for me is just seeing how these entrenched interests, they just keep constricting themselves around the power, around the money, around the systems, and nobody cares.”

“Many of the employees are fantastic. It’s this consultant group. They’re like a boa constrictor. They’re like a python,” he added. “They’ve constricted themselves around our government, and the costs are unbelievable. They’re being passed on to the American taxpayer.”

During the interview, the duo also disputed claims that DOGE is recklessly dismantling large swaths of the federal government while putting Americans’ privacy and personal information at risk. To Bessent, those criticisms ring hollow when considering how fundamentally broken the country’s tax collection processes have become.

“The entrenched interests, the consultants, the Democrats, mainstream media, they just want to blow this project out of the water,” Bessent told Ingraham. “This is the opposite of government efficiency, not elimination, not extinction. Sam and his crew are making it more efficient to work for the American people. So what’s wrong with it working better, cheaper, faster, and with more privacy?”

Bessent’s three priorities for the IRS will be “collections, privacy, and customer service,” and he argued, “None of those are being well served.”

“We want people to feel satisfied that they are getting the service they deserve, that they’re paying their fair share and not more, not less. And that it’s done quickly, smartly and privately.”

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