While I'm certain much of this is waste, some of it probably is not. Remember - these morons at the IRS still use over 150 COBOL applications, including the mainframe responsible for refunds. It is entirely possible that they need more IT people just to get those laptops ready (and possibly individually recognized by the mainframes).
They also had over 100,000 employees as of the end of FY2024, Fortunately they may lose up to half of them thanks to DOGE findings, and there are recommendations (and offers) from DOGE to modernize their 50+ year old computers - which should cut the number of IT people required to rig the laptops to work with the mainframes.
While I'm certain much of this is waste, some of it probably is not. Remember - these morons at the IRS still use over 150 COBOL applications, including the mainframe responsible for refunds. It is entirely possible that they need more IT people just to get those laptops ready (and possibly individually recognized by the mainframes).
They also had over 100,000 employees as of the end of FY2024, Fortunately they may lose up to half of them thanks to DOGE findings, and there are recommendations (and offers) from DOGE to modernize their 50+ year old computers - which should cut the number of IT people required to rig the laptops to work with the mainframes.
None of this surprises me.
Smart people around here. I see why they retain these people now.