Musk-Led DOGE Fires Employee Building Free Tax-Filing Website

BlockBeats News, March 2nd, a spokesperson for the General Services Administration (GSA) said on Saturday that the Trump administration has fired a group of tech-savvy civil servants who had helped build the IRS's free tax-filing service and revamped government websites.

GSA's Technology Transformation Service Director Thomas Shedd informed employees of 18F, the digital services team, that their work has been terminated as they have been deemed "non-essential." Around 90 18F employees were immediately stripped of their work equipment.

Musk, who heads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team, responded earlier this month on social media platform "X" to a post calling 18F a "far-left government in-house computing office," stating that the team has been "deleted." The Washington Post reported on Saturday that officials from Musk's team expressed interest in using personal tax records to verify the existence of fraud in federal benefit payments. (FXStreet)