When Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whiz kids aren’t busy looking for wasteful spending, they’re doing the even harder work of making government systems work better. Case in point, the IRS, where DOGE advisor Sam Corcas found a modernization program “that is already 30 years behind schedule and $15 billion over budget.”
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“Moving at the speed of government,” as Rudy Guiliani used to say.
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Talking to Fox News on Friday along with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Corcas described a computer system that was going out of date in the 1970s — real museum pieces to a thirtysomething guy like himself. “The IRS has some legacy infrastructure,” he told Fox, “old mainframes running COBOL and Assembly, and the challenge is how do we
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