Corcos, the co-founder and CEO of Levels—a health-tech company that uses real-time biological data to help people make smarter food choices—was brought in to assess the IRS's so-called "modernization" effort. What he found? An unaccountable leviathan hemorrhaging of tax dollars.

"A huge part of our government is collecting taxes. We cannot perform the basic functions of tax collection without paying a toll to all these contractors. We really have to figure out how to get out of this hole. We're in a really deep hole right now," DOGE representative Sam Corcos said.

Corcos told Ingraham that one of his top priorities during his six-month tenure is to review the IRS modernization program, along with other operational and budgetary matters.

Corcos revealed that the IRS's so-called modernization project is not only 30 years behind schedule, but also a jaw-dropping $15 billion over budget.

Sam Corcos:
Yeah, I've been brought in to look at the IRS's modernization program in particular, as well as the operations and maintenance budget. I really care a lot about this country, and this is a huge program that's currently 30 years behind schedule and already $15 billion over budget.

Laura Ingraham:
Wait a second. Explain to our viewers what the program is in layman's terms.

Sam Corcos:
Yeah. The goal is to take… The IRS has some pretty legacy infrastructure. It's actually very similar to what banks have been using—old mainframes running COBOL and assembly. The challenge has been: how do we migrate that to a modern system? Virtually every bank has already done this, but we're still using a lot of those same systems.

Typically, in industry, this takes a few years, maybe a few hundred million dollars. We're now 35 years into this program. If you ask them now, it's five years away—and it's been five years away since 1990. It was supposed to be delivered in 1996, and it's still five years away.

Corcos was trying to assess the system — but career bureaucrats, many of whom are terrified of accountability, resisted his efforts.