REPORT: Biden gave student volunteers access to IRS data

Democrats would love us all to believe that the access being granted to Elon Musk, who, by the way, has a security clearance due to his work with NASA, is unprecedented.

That narrative just got crushed after a report broke this week regarding student volunteers being given access to IRS data under the Biden administration. 

Dems Freak Out

It took all of about 10 seconds after word passed that Musk has been given access to Treasury payments systems for Democrats to freak out, calling it "unlawful meddling" by Musk.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) ran to the Senate floor, stating, "Whatever DOGE is doing, it is certainly not what democracy looks like, or has ever looked like in the grand history of this country, because democracy does not work in the shadows, democracy does not skirt the rule of law."

Schumer was presenting legislation with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) "to prevent unlawful meddling in the Treasury department’s payment systems, to prevent everyone's records from being made available to a small group of people who can look at them at will."

Musk is an appointed adviser for Donald Trump, something we see in every administration, even though Democrats act as though this is unprecedented. The only thing unprecedented about it is that someone is finally going over line items for government spending.

Blue States File Lawsuit

Just days after Musk gave his speech, 19 states, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, filed a lawsuit to block Musk from getting access to these files.

James claimed that DOGE has no legal power to access these files, which contained the information of millions of American taxpayers.

The suit also claimed that giving DOGE access to these records "poses huge cybersecurity risks that put vast amounts of funding for the States and their residents in peril."

A second suit was filed claiming that privacy laws were being violated by allowing DOGE access to these records.

Uhm, Joe Did Worse

Ironically, as Dems protest DOGE, they said nothing about Biden giving access to these records to “291 contractors, 74 other Federal agency employees, and 53 unpaid hires (researchers and student volunteers)."

That comes directly from an Inspector General's report issued in September 2024. The access reportedly took place in 2023.

The report goes on to say that the 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."

So, Dems are okay with student volunteers having this access, but they are upset about a presidential appointment who has a security clearance accessing the information to find government waste and fraud. Yes, that makes perfect sense.