Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to hold a hackathon next week in order to create a mega API for accessing Internal Revenue Service data, reports Wired. The outlet says the API would be used to move the data into a cloud platform potentially a third-party one to serve as the read center of the agencys systems.DOGEs hackathon plan includes pulling together dozens of IRS engineers in DC to build the API, writes Wired. Among the third-party providers the department has reportedly discussed involving is Palantir, a company known for its vast data collection and government surveillance and analysis work. DOGE is aiming to finish the API work in 30 days, a timeline one IRS employee told Wired is not technically possible and would cripple the IRS. Wired says the DOGE operatives orchestrating the project are 25-year-old Gavin Kliger and health-tech CEO Sam Corcos. On March 1st, The Washington Post reported that Corcos had pushed the agency to lift restrictions it had placed on Kligers access to its systems, and proposed an agreement to share IRS data across the government. A March 14th letter to the IRS from Senator Ron Wyden and others suggests the agency didnt relent, as it praises their rightful rejection of DOGEs requests. It goes on to cite another later Post story suggesting that Trump administration officials want to use IRS data to power their immigration crackdown and government efficiency campaign. One of the sources Wired spoke with said that schematizing and understanding the IRS data DOGE is after would take years and that these people have no experience, not only in government, but in the IRS or with taxes or anything else. DOGE has been winding its way through federal agencies since shortly after Trumps inauguration in January. Recent stops include the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission. And on Friday, it gained access to data maintained by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, which handles legal immigration.