A scheduled purge of potentially thousands of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees scheduled to begin Thursday could “disrupt tax-filing season,” Politico reported on Wednesday evening. According to the outlet and others, employees who are relatively new to the agency are expected to be hit hard by staffing cuts days after Elon Musk’s DOGE sought access to IRS computers. Politico reported... Ellis told IRS employees on a video call, “We received notification today that employees in SB/SE who are on probation are scheduled for termination.” In a separate call, she told workers she could not promise staffing cuts would not affect...