DOGE CHIEF claims to ‘delete’ GSA’s 18F Tech Group – MERITALK

Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), makes demands on his social media account that he had “deleted” General Services Administration’s 18F Technology Group.

These allegations have again led to some confusion about whether at least one technically-driven project that 18F helped construct-that direct file program created by IRS are still available.

18F is within GSA and helps federal agencies improve their digital services. 18F was launched in 2014 and has since helped improve the federal site availability, modernize technology, improve data access and increase the government’s customer service experience.

In a post made yesterday to his social platform x, musk re -released A tweet that called 18F part of the “remote government” that helped build the IRS Direct File program with the reorganization that claimed that the tax program “puts the government in charge of preparing people’s tax returns for them.”

In his repost, Musk added that the 18F “group has been deleted.”

While the 18f X account has been deleted, its site is still up and the direct file program is still available, including Latest extensions which allows citizens to submit tax returns electronically in another 12 states.

Musk’s latest post follows another He made late last week when he relocated another tweet that called GSA’s Technology Transformation Service (TTS) to a “Left Left Agency” and added his own comment “Deleted”.

Since launching the direct file, the program has received a tough opposition from some Republicans and private tax preparation companies. Last May, the IRS said it would make it direct file program permanently. It is now available in 25 states and accessible to up to 62 percent of individual taxpayers.

The program’s expansion was announced in the middle of House Republican calls for President Donald Trump to end the program on the first day of his new administration and called the program “Unauthorized and Spilled” in a letter to the president. The program is still operational and take tax files.

The current status of the 18F team is unclear as GSA did not immediately respond to Meritalk’s request for comment on this story.

Musk’s comments came only a day after DOGE -HEAD, which was tasked with improving the technology and agent of the federal government, advertised Apparently seizures and shutting of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the world’s largest single humanitarian auxiliary donor. Musk claimed that President Trump had given him the green light of the agency’s shutdown, leading democratic lawmakers to call the action constitutional.