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The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service plans to step down after disagreeing with the decision to share tax data on illegal immigrants with federal law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Commissioner Melanie Krause will become the third IRS leader to leave the agency since the start of the year. The agency has been turbulent because left-wing ideologues have decided to follow their political leanings rather than their pledge to serve as non-partisan government employees.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the IRS and the Department of Homeland Security finalized an agreement allowing taxpayer data to be shared with federal immigration authorities to assist in locating undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n

According to the Washington Post, officials from the Treasury Department, under which the IRS operates, had largely sidelined Krause recently as they pushed to grant immigration authorities access to private taxpayer information, likely because they knew she would oppose the agreement.<\/p>\n

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem signed the data-sharing agreement, despite warnings from IRS attorneys that the arrangement likely violated federal privacy laws, the report said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMelanie Krause has been leading the IRS through a time of extraordinary change,\u201d a Treasury spokesperson said in an emailed statement confirming her resignation.<\/p>\n

Without mentioning the data agreement, the spokesperson noted further that the agency was \u201cin the midst of breaking down data silos that for too long have stood in the way of identifying waste, fraud, and abuse and bringing criminals to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Krause\u2019s predecessor, Doug O\u2019Donnell, stepped down as acting commissioner after declining to sign a similar data-sharing agreement with the Department of Homeland Security in February. The last Senate-confirmed IRS commissioner, Danny Werfel, resigned on President Donald Trump\u2019s first day in office.<\/p>\n

Krause has chosen to apply for a deferred resignation program currently offered by the IRS, according to a source familiar with her decision. The individual, speaking on condition of anonymity, said her decision to step down was influenced in part by concerns over the recently finalized data-sharing agreement, Reuters\u00a0noted.<\/p>\n

The IRS began implementing sweeping workforce reductions on Friday, dismantling its civil rights office and initiating mass firings that could eliminate up to 25% of its staff.<\/p>\n

The cuts are part of a broader overhaul of the federal workforce that has already resulted in the loss of more than 200,000 jobs. President Donald Trump has appointed billionaire Elon Musk to lead the effort to restructure and streamline the federal government through his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Musk\u00a0told\u00a0Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz that \u201cmagic money computers\u201d within the U.S. government are generating payments \u201cout of thin air,\u201d leaving lawmakers clueless about federal spending.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Cruz\u2019s\u00a0podcast, Musk revealed that 14 such systems exist within the U.S. Treasury and other agencies, transferring large sums without the necessary evidence to justify the payments.<\/p>\n

Musk claimed that in departments housing one of these systems, reported spending could be off by as much as 5 percent of the budget when presented to Congress, while Cruz suggested that these improper payments could potentially total \u201ctrillions\u201d of dollars.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re mostly at Treasury,\u201d Musk said about the computers discovered by his U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, \u201cbut there\u2019s some at [Health and Human Services], there\u2019s one or two at State, there\u2019s some at [the Department of Defense].\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve found now 14 magic money computers. They just send money out of nothing,\u201d he told the Texas Republican senator.<\/p>\n

Expounding on DOGE\u2019s discovery, the unconventional entrepreneur explained that the presence of these computers prevents the Treasury Dept. from fully informing lawmakers about the federal government\u2019s total spending.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou may think that government computers all communicate with each other, synchronize, and accurately calculate where funds are going, making the numbers you see as a senator the real ones. They\u2019re not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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