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<\/p>\nA technology adviser working for the Elon Musk-run Department of Government Efficiency made a stunning revelation about what he discovered at the Internal Revenue Service during an appearance with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Fox News.<\/p>\n
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In an interview with host Laura Ingraham, Sam Corcos, who is working at the IRS to modernize the tax collection agency\u2019s software and computer systems, said that the upgrade is more than three decades behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget \u2014 with no resolution yet in sight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been brought in to look at the IRS modernization program, as well as the operations and maintenance budget,\u201d Corcos told Ingraham. \u201cThis is a huge program that is already 30 years behind schedule and $15 billion over budget.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe IRS has some legacy infrastructure\u2026 old mainframes running COBOL and Assembly, and the challenge is how do we make that a modern system? Virtually every bank has done this, but we\u2019re still using a lot of those old systems,\u201d Corcos continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cTypically, in industry, this takes a few years and maybe a few hundred million dollars. We\u2019re now 35 years into this\u2026 It was supposed to be delivered in 1996,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cA huge part of our government is collecting taxes. We cannot perform the basic functions of tax collection without paying a toll to all these contractors. We really have to figure out how to get out of this hole. We\u2019re in a really deep hole right now,\u201d Corcos noted further.<\/p>\n
Bessent then said that the real issue isn\u2019t with IRS staff but with agency contractors.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany of the employees are fantastic. It\u2019s this consultant group. They\u2019re like a boa constrictor. They\u2019re like a python,\u201d Bessent said. \u201cThey\u2019ve constricted themselves around our government, and the costs are unbelievable. They\u2019re being passed on to the American taxpayer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe entrenched interests, the consultants, the Democrats, mainstream media, they just want to blow this project out of the water,\u201d Bessent added. \u201cThis 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\u2019s wrong with it working better, cheaper, faster, and with more privacy?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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