DOGE special advisor is optimistic about the project despite failures over 3 decades.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was interviewed alongside Sam Corcas, the CEO of tech startup Levels and a special advisor to the Treasury Department hired by President Donald Trump. The two spoke about the review of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) modernization program.
Corcas said that the IRS modernization program was running 30 years behind schedule, but that the agency’s software talent “haven’t been in a position” to guide modernization decisions.
“The IRS has some pretty legacy infrastructure,” he explained about the modernization program. “It’s actually very similar to what banks have been using. It’s old mainframes running COBOL and Assembly. And the challenge has been how do we migrate that to a modern system?”
Secretary Bessent said that DOGE must work quickly because, “if you don’t move fast, the vested interests will weigh you down, like the quicksand will come up, or the claws.”
The treasury secretary continued, “Everybody’s got lobbyists, everybody’s got—I mean, think about it, within a 10-mile radius of here, 25 percent of the GDP of the U.S. pulsates through here every day, and everybody wants to just skim a little.”
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For Secretary Bessent as he oversees the DOGE audits in the agencies within the Treasury Department.
- For the president to be discerning as he pulls private sector partners into government work.
Sources: MSN, The Epoch Times, Townhall
