{"id":41256,"date":"2025-07-23T13:36:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=41256"},"modified":"2025-07-23T13:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:36:37","slug":"doge-put-free-tax-filing-tool-on-chopping-block-after-one-meeting-with-lobbyists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=41256","title":{"rendered":"DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/685dba325797a05ebc7c5602\/16:9\/w_800%2Ch_450%2Cc_limit\/undefined\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"178\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/doge-direct-file-chopping-block\/\">DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[255,400,57],"class_list":["post-41256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-ratfuckers","tag-taxes","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41258,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41256\/revisions\/41258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}