“A 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’re in a really deep hole right now,” DOGE representative Sam Corcos said Thursday on “The Ingraham Angle.”
The “DOGE bro” shed light on his work within the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to trim the federal government fat alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Corcos told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that one of his main priorities during his six-month timeline is to look at the IRS modernization program, as well as other operations and budgets.
“This is a huge program that’s currently 30 years behind schedule, and it’s already $15 billion over budget,” he said. “The IRS has some pretty legacy infrastructure…and the challenge has been how do we migrate that to a modern system?”
Bessent, who was recently confirmed as President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary, added “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.”
Bessent said his top three priorities for the tax collecting bureau are “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,” he said.
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