The Trump administration has removed the team of federal workers who helped build the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) free tax-filing platform and reworked websites across government, a General Service Administration spokesperson said on March 1.
GSA’s Director of Technology Transformation Services, Thomas Shedd, notified the employees on a digital service team called 18F that they had been deemed “non-critical” and their jobs were terminated, locking out roughly 90 employees from their devices. The IRS’s free direct-file tax website is currently still online.
The GSA said the action was implemented to fulfill a number of President Donald Trump’s executive orders, including one issued on Feb. 11 titled Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency [DOGE] Workforce Optimization Initiative….