During the interview, the duo also disputed claims that DOGE is recklessly dismantling large swaths of the federal government while putting Americans’ privacy and personal information at risk. To Bessent, those criticisms ring hollow when considering how fundamentally broken the country’s tax collection processes have become.

“The entrenched interests, the consultants, the Democrats, mainstream media, they just want to blow this project out of the water,” Bessent told Ingraham. “This is the opposite of government efficiency, not elimination, not extinction. Sam and his crew are making it more efficient to work for the American people. So what’s wrong with it working better, cheaper, faster, and with more privacy?”

Bessent’s three priorities for the IRS will be “collections, privacy, and customer service,” and he argued, “None of those are being well served.”

“We want people to feel satisfied that they are getting the service they deserve, that they’re paying their fair share and not more, not less. And that it’s done quickly, smartly and privately.
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