How DOGE led a ‘hostile takeover’ at the IRS to use taxpayer data for immigration crackdowns

Cătălin Roșioru

CNN  —  They said no, over and over again. Career officials at the Internal Revenue Service were pressed by Trump officials and DOGE staffers to hand over access to sensitive taxpayer data to immigration agencies, but repeatedly refused, telling their new overseers that doing so would be illegal. The chief privacy officer told the agency’s acting commissioner in late February that “there is no clear legal authority right now for this,” according to a source with knowledge of the conversation.

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