ICE Grabs IRS Data: Undocumented Taxpayers Face "Perilous" Filing
$25.7B in Social Security taxes at stake
WASHINGTON—On Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem signed a stark, 15-page pact that says says ICE will now request IRS tax records for immigration enforcement purposes. IRS can deny the request, but the resignation over the memo on Wednesday of acting commissioner Melanie Krause is an unsubtle message to her successor.
“It strikes me that it's become a lot more perilous,” Richard Neal (MA) told us Wednesday when asked if it was safe for undocumented migrants to file taxes. When Neal was chairman, the House Ways and Means Committee fought for years to access Trump’s tax returns; this latest handover of tax records to the Trump administration took just weeks. Listen to Neal: