An employee of the dismissed IRS describes the irony of being hired to “make the IRS” more effective “
On Thursday, Thursday dismissed thousands of workers across the country, many triggered employees left the headquarters in Washington, DC, for the last time.
An IRS worker dismissed, who left the building with a heavy suitcase and a stuffed sports bag, told ABC News that he was originally hired to make the IRS more efficient.
“I was led to do data analysis and automation,” he said, adding that his colleagues were “surprised and injured” because “understanding was that I was brought to give things back More effective “and the government would keep people with its set of technical skills.
He declared that his “modernized” work the infrastructure of IRS data and his work of rationalized conformity, noting the irony in that the declared mission of reductions in the federal workforce by the Ministry of the ‘Elon Musk government efficiency is precisely to make government more effective.
An external view of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in Washington, February 14, 2025.
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Sources have told ABC News that IRS should fire more than 6,000 probation employees across the country from Thursday – around 6% of the Total IRS workforce. A source familiar with the case told ABC News that more than 100 people were dismissed in the offices of Washington, including more than 60 finished from the IRS headquarters.
However, layoffs are expected to be nationally expected, with hundreds expected in Texas, New York, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Pennsylvania.
When asked if he thought that the layoffs would affect this tax declaration season, the dismissed worker said: “You can only imagine with so many people who are released and so much information and potential lost that people can probably expect disturbances. “
“I hope that the reflection is more thoughtful in the long-term impact that some of these decisions will not only have on American taxpayers, but the American people,” he added.
He said that he had worked in a variety of industries, in particular by doing research in nanotechnology, research and engineering in biotechnology, but that he felt the most motivation and mission while working for the federal government.
A sign is outside the United States Building Internet Revenue Service (IRS) in Washington, DC, February 20, 2025.
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Another IRS employee who wiped tears described the impact she thought it will have on the future of the IRS. Although she still has a job, she said that these dismissals “aim” for IRS and will mean fewer application and fewer people to respond to taxpayers’ concerns.
She also noted that a large part of the IRS workforce is older and near retirement. Probation employees who were recently hired included the “best and most brilliant” that represented the future of the IRS, she said, adding that all this is now removed.
Another IRS worker told ABC News that he was only three weeks old to no longer be a probation employee. He challenged Musk and Trump’s claims that layoffs improve efficiency.
“I know that the people I worked with … work very hard, and therefore … if you measure efficiency by productivity, certainly not. If you measure the effectiveness by moral, absolutely not,” a -Ali said. “I accepted this role to help our country fight the bad guys.”
