Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is organizing a hackathon to create a single 'mega API' for IRS data access. There are plans to partner with a third-party vendor, potentially Palantir, for managing this system. Top DOGE operatives, Sam Corcos and Gavin Kliger, advocate pausing existing modernization efforts, cutting $1.5 billion from the budget, and simplifying the code complexity within IRS systems. The initiative aims to provide easier cloud platform access to IRS data, fundamentally shifting digital information management.
"We've so far stopped work and cut about $1.5 billion from the modernization budget. Mostly projects that were going to continue to put us down the death spiral of complexity in our code base," said Sam Corcos.
Corcos emphasized the necessity of creating a unified API, stating "We're aiming to build 'one new API to rule them all,' which would leverage cloud platforms to enhance data accessibility."
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