Top IRS lawyer pushed aside as DOGE seeks records and 20 percent staff cuts

Elon Musk’s team has provoked concern among career staff over requests for tax records of undocumented immigrants.

The Trump administration on Thursday removed the Internal Revenue Service’s top lawyer and rolled out plans to downsize nearly 20 percent of the agency’s staff as billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service seeks access to sensitive taxpayer records, according to five people familiar with the matter.

William Paul, a career official named to the position in January, will be replaced by Andrew De Mello, who was nominated to be the Education Department’s inspector general during Trump’s first term. Also, DOGE officials instructed the acting IRS commissioner to eliminate 18,141 jobs across the agency by May 15,

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Trump administration looking to eliminate taxes for anyone earning less than $150,000 per year.

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