Gavin Kliger has been helping the new Department of Government Efficiency cut spending as an employee of the Office of Personnel Management and was recently granted access to IRS

The Trump White House and Treasury Department officials have reached an agreement to limit DOGE's access to IRS data, citing privacy concerns.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has blocked a key aide to tech billionaire Elon Musk from accessing individual taxpayer returns or other personal information as part of a deal signed between the tax-collecting agency and the Trump administration.

The U.S. IRS has reached a contractual understanding with Gavin Kliger, an aide to Elon Musk, which restricts his access to sensitive taxpayer data. Signed by Treasury and OPM officials, this agreement aims to streamline IRS operations while safeguarding individual taxpayer privacy.

The unusual request could put sensitive data about millions of American taxpayers in the hands of Trump political appointees.

An IRS draft memo may grant a DOGE adviser broad access to taxpayer data, raising privacy concerns and sparking legal challenges.

The DOGE efforts at the IRS come as the Trump administration is moving to drastically reduce the size of the tax collection agency.

Gavin Kliger, a DOGE software engineer, will only have read access to anonymized tax data, the Post reported, noting the Treasury Department and White House came to an agreement stopping DOGE from accessing sensitive taxpayer data like bank accounts,