by Tim Harris at RealClear Politics
Sam Corcos, a DOGE advisor working in the Treasury Department to modernize IRS software, talks with FNC’s Laura Ingraham.
“I’ve been brought in to look at the IRS modernization program, as well as the operations and maintenance budget,” Corcos said. “This is a huge program that is already 30 years behind schedule and $15 billion over budget.”
“The IRS has some legacy infrastructure… 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’re still using a lot of those old systems. Typically in industry, this takes a few years and maybe a few hundred million dollars. We’re now 35 years into this… It was supposed to be delivered in 1996.”
“Many of the employees are fantastic. It’s this consultant group. They’re like a boa constrictor. They’re like a python,” Treasury Secretary Bessent said. “They’ve constricted themselves around our government, and the costs are unbelievable. They’re being passed on to the American taxpayer.”
“The entrenched interests, the consultants, the Democrats, mainstream media, they just want to blow this project out of the water,” Bessent said. “This 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’s wrong with it working better, cheaper, faster, and with more privacy?”
“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,” Corcos said.
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