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The #Trump admin is terminating the jobs of dozens of #technology specialists whose broad portfolio of projects across the govt included the #IRS’s free tax filing software & passport services.
The specialists, who belonged to a unit at the #GSA known as #18F, developed software & technology products for various #FederalAgencies, w/the goal of improving efficiency & better serving the public.
#Trump #Musk #DOGE #USpol #law #InfoSec
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/us/politics/18f-technology-specialists-fired.html?smid=url-share
In an email to workers at the agency’s #Technology Transformation Services, Thomas Shedd, a fmr #Tesla engineer who is now the division’s dir, said that #18F had been identified as noncritical & would be cut.
“This decision was made with explicit direction from the top levels of leadership within both the administration & #GSA,” Shedd said in the email…. He added that while no other #TTS programs had been affected, “we anticipate more change in the future.”
…Among the marquee websites that #18F employees helped build or revamp are the #IRS’s free tax filing service known as #DirectFile & the National Weather Service’s page, weather.gov.
But since #Trump returned to the Oval Office, 18F has also been targeted by #ElonMusk, the #tech #billionaire whom Trump tasked w/cutting back the government. #Musk wrote last month in a post on his social media platform, X, that “that group has been deleted.”