On the IRS.gov website, the login button wasn’t where users expected—it was hidden in the middle of the page instead of being in the top right corner like on most websites.

When an IRS engineer looked into fixing it, he was told the earliest it could be done was 103 days later, due to layers of bureaucracy and red tape. Refusing to accept that timeline, the engineer teamed up with the DOGE team and made the fix in just 71 minutes.

The quick turnaround shows that the problem isn’t the people working at the IRS—it’s the system slowing them down. There are smart, capable workers inside government who could get things done fast if the bureaucracy didn’t get in their way.