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IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in DOGE shakeup

The Register · Joe Fay · last updated

CIO says sweeping reorg followed deep cuts as agency pushes cross-functional teams and AI

Job cuts at the IRS’s tech arm have gone faster and farther than expected, with 40 percent of IT staff and four-fifths of tech leaders gone, the agency’s CIO revealed yesterday.

Kaschit Pandya detailed the extent of the tech reorganization during a panel at the Association of Government Accountants yesterday, describing it as the biggest in two decades.

This happened as the Trump administration reshaped the federal bureaucracy last year with Elon Musk’s DOGE wielding the chainsaw.

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