IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

Cutting staff thereby reducing the IRS's ability to find and go after wealthy tax cheats.

The fourth sentence of the article explains it

The Post reports today that the IRS’s internal projections estimate that the DOGE-driven disruptions to the IRS since the inauguration are on track to have reduced tax receipts by more than $500 billion by April 15th. This, to be clear, is not a final tally. It’s not April 15th yet. It’s a projection based on historical data, the number of people who’ve filed, paid owed amounts of tax etc.

For every dollar spent on IRS staffing, etc, it's estimated to be at least a 7x return. Any disruptions are going to cost a lot with that in mind. Also, I find it a little misguided to question the IRS, an agency that shows its work's opinion on DOGE, an "agency?" Which has failed to show its work and has been caught lying frequently.

Yeah the article is just rehashing a wapo article that's linked, the original one is much clearer