DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.

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    Corcos has discussed plans for DOGE to build “one new API to rule them all,” making IRS data more easily accessible for cloud platforms,

    Oh my god

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    He has also spoken about some aspects of these cuts publicly: “We’ve so far stopped work and cut about $1.5 billion from the modernization budget…”

    Thanks. Because one thing taxpayers liked about the IRS was how not-modern they are. /s

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    30 days to write an API for a dataset that involves all American citizens’s tax records?

    yep, I can see nothing going wrong whatsoever.

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      Yeah, and you build an MVP in a hackathon, not something that needs to be relied on by a whole country. I hate these people.

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      thirty days? sounds more like how long it will take to swipe all the data.