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How Trump and DOGE Broke the IRS

The Internal Revenue Service may never be the government’s most popular agency, but it could have been the most efficient.  In 2022, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which invested $80 billion to fix the IRS. In 2023, then-IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel submitted a 200-page modernization plan to Congress, promising a major overhaul of the agency’s processes and technology. Among these reforms was Direct File, which debuted in 2024. Th…

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Washington Monthly broke the news on Sunday, July 12, 2026.
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