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“An IRS engineer explained that the *soonest* this change could get deployed is July 21st... 103 days from now”
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Where I used to work we called that “malicious compliance”.
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That IRS “engineer” knew how he was just soaking the system......if he’s not any smarter than that he doesn’t deserve the position and should be removed.

These are the same types of IT douchebags who, when asked for a Department of Interior Survey, planned to spend millions on the survey, when it would have cost in a normal world less than $10,000 dollars using a tool like SurveyMonkey.

As an aside, page after page on a web search (I stopped at ten pages deep) were composed of "fact checks" and denials that this was a valid find.

Of course, when you read some of them (and I soiled my browser to do so) you see things like this (from CBS):

"That appeared to be a reference to a March 19 post on X, where the DOGE account wrote that the Federal Consulting Group, an arm of the Department of the Interior, "brokered a $75M contract to design website customer satisfaction surveys , and then attempted to award $830M to conduct similar surveys." The post added that the contract was canceled before it was signed, and that the Federal Consulting Group would be dissolved that week. "

Ahhh. So, they were only going to award a $75 million contract to do a survey that cost $10,000 to do with SurveyMonkey.

Oh, that is much better. I am so relieved.

And that $830 million to conduct "similar" surveys was "cancelled" before it was signed.

Gee. I feel even better, even without knowing why it was not signed. Could it just be that people were actually looking at this? What if they hadn't been looking?

Would this have been signed? I have zero doubt it would have been.

How many of these bastardly things DO get signed and ARE getting signed that we just don't know about in this massive, bloated government?