DOGE Flamethrower Lights Up IRS

LOADING ERROR LOADING At a hastily assembled meeting of the IRS procurement office on Wednesday, a top official had a troubling message for the team. “Toward the end of the day today we received urgent instructions to close out these contracts within a few hours,” the IRS procurement official told HuffPost Thursday. One small business owner whose contract was being canceled told HuffPost that “nothing about this is normal.” She found out about the terminations by email, and said the IRS officials her company was working with weren’t even aware her contract had been terminated Thursday. But this time, she said, a helpful IRS procurement officer had encouraged her to get any final invoices in quickly — because “they’re getting pressure to not just terminate contracts, but to disburse that money. The New York Times reported Tuesday that two DOGE representatives had “pushed for access to agency databases, including, most recently, one that has information about the agency’s contractors.” The cuts at the IRS reflect a broader slash-and-burn agenda carried out by Trump officials, and particularly the team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, to cut with a hacksaw first and ask questions later.