As Democrats raise concerns about DOGE’s oversight, the Biden administration permitted “291 contractors, 74 other Federal agency employees, and 53 unpaid hires (researchers and student volunteers), to access the IRS’s Compliance Data Warehouse (CDW), according to an inspector general report issued September 9, 2024. The report found the individuals were authorized IRS access in 2023.

Many of those individuals were granted access to unmasked data that “includes Personally Identifiable Information,” the report stated, which “requires an approved access entitlement, and access to Personally Identifiable Information also requires executive level approval,” according to the report:

Compliance Data Warehouse (CDW). According to the IRS, the primary goal of the CDW is to provide a single, integrated environment of data and computing services to support the research and analysis needs of IRS employees and research analysts. The CDW is not a traditional computer software application. At its core, the CDW is a massive data warehouse containing multiple years of Federal Tax Information and Personally Identifiable Information consolidated from multiple sources, internal and external to the IRS. The CDW offers a broad range of databases that research analysts may access through a variety of data analytic tools. Examples of the data available include:

• Individual Master File data.

• Business Master File data.

• Tax return data.

• Taxpayer contact information.

• Conversations between a taxpayer and an IRS agent.

• Actions that took place on behalf of the IRS.


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