- Doge would have planned a “mega api” to create in a hackathon
- The API will rationalize the sharing of tax data for the IRS
- Trump’s decree aims to stop waste, fraud and abuse
The original Elon Musk’s original government agency, the Government Ministry of Effectiveness (DOGE), would have planned a “hackathon” to build a “mega API” to access IRS data in a major rationalization decision.
According to CableThe objective is to centralize IRS data in a single-zone accommodation platform which could become the “reading center for all IRS systems” and unnamed sources cited by Cable have already appointed a potential partner.
“Palantant … was mentioned in a coherent manner by Doge representatives as a possible candidate”, ” CableAccording to sources.
Musk wants to make an irs “mega api”
Palantant Technologies, which currently has a market capitalization of 173.5 billion dollars, notably has Peter Thiel among its co -founders – a known part of Musk.
The main customers of the company include American government agencies, but some private sector companies are also customers.
“Dozens” of IRS engineers are invited to a Washington DC hackathon event to collaborate in the API, and it is believed that the API has a short term of only 30 days – which initiates think both unrealistic and potentially harmful.
With the API, DOGE hopes to bring together basic sensitive data such as names, addresses, SSN, income statements and job details.
It could considerably rationalize inter-departmental data sharing, but criticisms argue that it could present a major security risk, describing it as “an open door controlled by musk for all the most sensitive American information without any of the rules which normally guarantee this data”.
On March 20, 2025, Trump signed an executive decree to banish information silos, in order to “stop waste, fraud and abuse”. The order seemed to focus on IRS, declaring an interest in “eliminating bureaucratic duplication and ineffectiveness while improving the government’s ability to detect overpaye and fraud”.
The White House has not yet shared plans for the hackathon of rumors.
