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In a bombshell revelation, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller has sounded the alarm on a massive foreign fraud operation that has siphoned off billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded benefits through the IRS.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Elon Musk and DOGE have now started their efforts to crack down on arguably the most hated agency in the entire country, causing liberals to lose it all over again.
Reuters reported that Gavin Kliger, a key staffer working with Elon Musk in his efforts to downsize the federal government, entered IRS headquarters on Thursday to investigate the corrupt agency’s operations. Sources told Reuters that Kliger had been meeting with multiple senior executives at the agency to learn more.
Speaking with Fox News, Miller detailed how foreign nationals, using fraudulent Social Security numbers and fake identities, have infiltrated the American tax system to extract untold sums from hardworking Americans.
With the Department of Government Oversight and Enforcement (DOGE) on the verge of gaining full access to IRS records, Miller predicts that what they uncover could expose one of the largest financial scams in U.S. history.
Sandra Smith:
Thousands of IRS workers could face the chopping block as the White House continues to cut spending. Meantime, we are learning DOGE’s access to IRS records is imminent… So tell us about this. What are the plans to do so if those records are obtained?
Stephen Miller:
Well, as we know, there’s a massive amount of fraud in this country. You have, for example, foreign fraud rings.
These are foreign nationals who come into the United States, they use fake social security numbers, they use fake identities to steal billions in taxpayer benefits.
There’s no way to know until DOGE gains full access exactly how much money we’re talking about. But over a ten-year normal budget window, you could be talking about saving over a trillion dollars by clamping down on massive fraud in our tax and entitlement systems, including, again, those carried out by organized fraud and theft rings.
The very important point in all this is to understand that DOGE are subordinate staffers of the federal government. They are political appointees, just like me, just like everyone else in the White House, that serve and answer to the President.
We’re not talking about an outside private entity. We’re talking about the existing federal staff of the federal government performing their statutory constitutional duty.
WATCH:
The Gateway Pundit reported last year that the National Public Data (NPD), a Coral Springs, Florida-based company, has confirmed that cybercriminals successfully breached its servers, stealing the Social Security numbers and other sensitive information of nearly EVERY American.
The breach, which occurred in late December 2023, is believed to have exposed sensitive data through subsequent leaks in April and the summer of 2024.
NPD attributed the breach to a “third-party bad actor” and described the incident as a “data security incident” in its official statement on its website.
Since August 1, at least eight separate lawsuits have been filed against NPD, each alleging negligence and breaches of fiduciary duty. The first of these lawsuits was filed by Christopher Hoffman, a California resident, who claims that a cybercriminal group known as “USDoD” posted the stolen data on the dark web.
Hoffman’s lawsuit, which was first reported by Bloomberg Law, alleges that the group made the personal data of 2.9 billion people available for sale on the dark web, pricing the database at a staggering $3.5 million. The lawsuit further alleges that the hackers obtained data dating back at least three decades, including information about relatives and past addresses.
Miller dismissed claims that DOGE’s access to IRS records would infringe on Americans’ private tax information, insisting that their work is laser-focused on shutting down criminal fraud rings that have stolen billions from U.S. taxpayers.
According to Miller, one of the most egregious examples? Illegal immigrants are filing fraudulent tax returns to claim child tax credits, despite not even being eligible.
One of DOGE’s primary missions, according to Miller, will be to overhaul the IRS’s outdated IT systems—long considered vulnerable to hacking and foreign infiltration.
John Roberts:
All right. Of course, the opposition is raising concerns that, oh, they’re getting access to this. They’re going to be looking into the private records of taxpayers across the country. Can you give assurances to people who faithfully pay their taxes in this country? The DOGE isn’t just going to go randomly sifting through the records and maybe come across the personal private records of a lot of Americans.
Stephen Miller:
I can give absolute 100% insurance. I give you complete and total assurance on that point. We are talking about performing a basic anti-fraud review to ensure that people are not engaging in large-scale theft of federal taxpayer benefits.
I mean, for example, we pay billions of dollars a year in child tax credit payments to illegal aliens, billions with a B. So these are systematic programmatic reforms that we’re talking about here.
As far as protecting the secrecy of tax records, the IRS has been weaponized at the career level against the American people for years now.
This has been one of the most invasive arms of the federal government, engaging in capricious and politically-based audits, leaking taxpayer information for political reasons. We are restoring the neutrality. We are restoring ethics. We are restoring security controls at IRS.
In fact, one of the big projects that DOGE is going to be working on is upgrading IT systems and software so that our taxpayer information cannot be stolen by criminal hospitals or foreign governments.
Smith raised concerns over the Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS), a system that allows IRS employees to access taxpayer accounts, questioning whether DOGE’s access to these records could expose sensitive financial data.
However, Miller shut down that line of attack, clarifying that the oversight effort is not about individual taxpayers but about programmatic fraud detection at the systemic level.
Miller also drew a sharp contrast between DOGE’s efforts and past abuses of power at the IRS, referencing the infamous Lois Lerner scandal, in which conservative organizations were unfairly targeted.
Sandra Smith:
Steven, so just when it comes to, and maybe we’re getting a little too in the weeds here, but I think you have to. When you look at the integrated data retrieval system, the IDRS, I guess this is where some red flags are going up about access to that personal information.
This would give the tax agency employees access to IRS accounts, and certainly you can correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t they then have access to personal identification numbers and bank information?
Stephen Miller:
No. What we’re talking about is at the programmatic level, being able to analyze and assess for signs and symptoms of fraud that would involve established criminal organizations and established fraud rings and looking at how IT systems are failing to detect and interdict this fraud.
Again, if you were to just eliminate fraud alone in our tax and entitlement systems, you’re talking about trillions of dollars in long-term savings. We need to protect the integrity of these systems that Americans rely on.
Right now, the federal government doesn’t even catch a tiny fraction of the criminal fraud that takes place that is ripping off and abusing American taxpayers.
The notion that we would trust the same bureaucracy that has overseen this endemic fraud, waste, corruption, and abuse for decades without installing basic political controls on that system, basic accountability on that system.
Again, when we talk about DOGE, who are we talking about? We are talking about staff that serves the President of the United States, that is appointed by the President, that reports to the White House that is part of the formal infrastructure of the federal government. That is the highest level of accountability that you can possibly have, as opposed to some career civil servant who is, up until now, been completely immune from any form of accountability.
You remember when President Trump’s private tax information was leaked and weaponized. Politicization at the IRS has been a huge problem. Do you remember that scandal going back, Lois Lerner at the IRS and weaponizing the tax system against small conservative nonprofits?
I give you my word, John. The only thing that is happening here is restoring neutrality, ethics, accountability to the IRS to make sure at the payment level, at the systems level, that we can identify signs and warning symptoms that large-scale fraud is taking place, that unfair politicization is taking place, that unfair targeting is taking place and that we have faith and confidence in the IRS and that no dollars are being stolen from the American people.
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