Mencimer said she “realized that the IRS was finally imploding.” It's what everyone warned would happen when Elon Musk used his DOGE program to reduce the IRS by 25,000 people. But Mencimer writes that her experience, along with IRS data and accounts from other taxpayers and professionals, suggests otherwise. When Mencimer logged into her IRS account, she repeatedly saw a message: “Account features limited due to partial outage. Biden’s administration had allocated funds to modernize IRS IT systems, but Trump cut the IT office by 40 percent.