'Give you my word': Stephen Miller promises Musk can be trusted with unfettered IRS access

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller promised Fox News that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) would not abuse Internal Revenue Service data and systems.

During a Monday interview on Fox News, anchor John Roberts noted that critics of DOGE feared the agency would be "looking into the private records of taxpayers across the country."

"Can you give assurances to people who faithfully pay their taxes in this country that DOGE isn't just going to go randomly sifting through the records and maybe come across the personal private records of a lot of Americans?" Roberts asked.

"I can give absolute 100% assurance," Miller insisted. "I give you complete and total assurance on that point."

"We are restoring the neutrality. We are restoring ethics. We are restoring security controls at IRS," he remarked.

Co-anchor Sandra Smith pointed out that Musk's employees could also get access to "personal identification numbers and bank information."

"No," Miller replied. "And the notion that we would trust the same bureaucracy that has overseen this endemic fraud, waste, corruption, and abuse for decades, without installing basic political controls on that system, basic accountability on that system."

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"I give you my word, John, the only thing that is happening here is restoring neutrality, ethics, accountability to the IRS, to make sure at the payment level, at the systems level, that we can identify signs and warning symptoms that large scale fraud is taking place, that unfair politicization is taking place, that unfair targeting is taking place, and that we have faith and confidence in the IRS, and that no dollars are being stolen from the American people."

Watch the video below from Fox News.