Acting IRS Chief Resigns After Refusing to Comply With Illegal Immigrant-Sharing Deal
The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service plans to step down, the Treasury Department announced Tuesday after disagreeing with the decision to share tax data on illegal immigrants with federal law enforcement.
Commissioner Melanie Krause will become the third IRS leader to leave the agency since the start of the year, which has been made turbulent by left-wing ideologues deciding to follow their political leanings rather than their pledge to serve as non-partisan government employees.
On Monday, the IRS and the Department of Homeland Security finalized an agreement allowing taxpayer data to be shared with federal immigration authorities to aid in locating undocumented immigrants.
According to the Washington Post, officials from the Treasury Department, under which the IRS operates, had largely sidelined Krause in recent days as they pushed to grant immigration authorities access to private taxpayer information, likely because they knew she would oppose the agreement.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem signed the data-sharing agreement Monday, despite warnings from IRS attorneys that the arrangement likely violated federal privacy laws, the report said.
