The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) fired dozens of Denver employees Thursday, beginning President Donald Trump’s broader purge of the agency’s workforce, according to Axios.
Between 120 and 150 Denver IRS workers, most of whom were probationary, were laid off across multiple divisions, including collections and tax compliance, Patricia Allen, a chapter president at the National Treasury Employees Union, told the outlet. The layoffs follow Trump’s directives to shrink the federal workforce through Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has also been tasked with identifying and freezing wasteful federal spending. (RELATED: Howard Lutnick Shares Trump’s Plan To Ax IRS And Shift Tax Burden To ‘Outsiders’)
“I’ve been with the IRS for 20 years, and I’ve never seen this kind of layoff. Never,” Allen told the outlet.
Would you like @DOGE to audit the IRS?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 4, 2025
Some of the laid off workers reportedly received early morning terminations, while others awaited emails they expected would give them 30 minutes to vacate the premises. Over 6,000 IRS employees face termination in the agency’s initial round of cuts, The New York Times first reported.
Musk initially sought to examine the IRS and its spending programs by attempting to access the agency’s payment systems over the weekend, prompting a coalition of union groups to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration Monday. […]
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