[eterevsky]

Government employees are never elected. They are hired by the elected officials. In this case the general public in the US was aware of DOGE before the election and chose to vote for it.

[orf]

Where specifically was it spelled out that DODGE would remove the free tax filing system?

[thebigspacefuck]

Did they delete it? Elon said 18F, the group that developed DirectFile, was deleted. DirectFile appears to still be available.

https://directfile.irs.gov/

[niceice]

Right. Why are people suddenly confused about this?