More than 800 Internal Revenue Service workers owe millions of dollars in back taxes even after a report earlier this year exposed the situation, the Washington Examiner reported Monday.

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who has highlighted the issue, hopes that such public waste will be dealt with by billionaire Elon Musk, who has been appointed by President-elect Donald Trump along with former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to head a new department based on government efficiency.

A July report requested by Ernst revealed that more than 5,800 IRS and contractor employees owed almost $50 million in overdue taxes, with the agency firing just 20 of the employees who failed to pay taxes. 

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