1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

I am writing to express my confusion concerning Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency cutting staff and funding for the Internal Revenue Service. As you know, The Constitution’s Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 gives Congress, solely, the power and authority to collect taxes. DOGE’s gutting of the IRS undercuts that authority and ultimately weakens Congressional control over the taxes we pay. This unconstitutional action by unvetted youths with no government experience is seizing power granted to you in Article 1. I am confused as to why you are not opposing that. Are you abdicating your power, and your responsibility, as a member of Congress? DOGE is an illegitimate governmental body, whose leader was not approved or vetted by Congress. Yet DOGE now, illegally, has access to every taxpayer’s most sensitive personal information. If I had illegally accessed that information, I would—rightfully—be in jail. To make matters more confusing, the IRS is one of the Federal agencies that brings in more money than it is apportioned. It makes money. How can interfering with that be considered in any way ‘efficient?’ My wife and I urge you to reclaim your Congressional authority, take your power back from a group of power-hungry twenty-somethings and make this all make sense.