The treasury department’s Internal Revenue Service division is spending billions on technology contractors but gets little in return, says a technology consultant hired by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) office.
“It’s hard to really grasp the scale of this,” IRS consultant Sam Corcas told Fox News Laura Ingraham on May 20:
We process about the same amount of data as a mid-sized bank. A typical mid-size bank will have somewhere between 100 and 200 people in it, and they’ll have an operations and maintenance budget in the $20 million-a-year range. We have 8,000 people and our operations and maintenance budget is $3.5 billion a year. I don’t really know why yet, but I will tell you, 80 percent of the budget goes
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