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the team behind that stuff was private company consultants...

No it was the team known as 18F that Elon Musk "deleted".

https://apnews.com/article/irs-direct-file-musk-18f-6a4dc35a...

Excerpt: Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk posted Monday on his social media site that he had “deleted” 18F, a government agency that worked on technology projects such as the IRS’ Direct File program.

it was a govt agency full of contracting companies/workers... I've worked with them for quite some time directly in fact for many years, so excuse me when i don't believe you when you say 'no'. Just because its a govt agency doesn't mean they are govt employees

18F was entirely federal employees.

Did you mean the Direct File one?

yes

Oh I see, looks like a complicated scheme than I thought...thanks!

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