DOGE: There Are 1,400 IRS Employees Assigned to Deliver Laptops and Cellphones to IRS Agents
‘Why would you have 1,400 people whose only job it is to give out a laptop and a phone?’
Mar 28, 2025 1:30 PM
By Grabien Staff
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TRANSCRIPT:
ARMSTRONG: "You have overstaffing. A good example of overstaffing would be the IRS has got 1400 people who are dedicated to provisioning laptops and cell phones. So, if you join the IRS, you have a laptop and a cell phone, you're provisioned. So if each of those IRS officers or employees provisioned two employees per day, you could provision the entire IRS in a little more than a month. So, 12 times a year — "
MUSK: "You had 1400 people whose only job it is to give out a laptop and a phone."
ARMSTRONG: "Right. The whole IRS could be handled once a month. So that doesn’t — that doesn't make any sense."