Immigration Enforcement and Data Sharing

At a House hearing ahead of the April tax deadline, IRS CEO Bisignano repeatedly declined to say who was fired, disciplined, or held accountable after a federal judge, Colleen Kollar‑Kotelly, found the IRS unlawfully disclosed confidential taxpayer information "approximately 42,695 times" to ICE under a DHS–IRS agreement, saying the matter predated his tenure and is tied to ongoing litigation. He defended agency actions — including terminating IRS union contracts — even as lawmakers noted two preliminary injunctions blocking massive transfers and barring ICE from acting on IRS data already in its possession, and critics (including Rep. Suzan DelBene) called the disclosures a catastrophic leadership failure tied to the April 2025 Bessent–Noem data‑sharing deal that allowed ICE to submit names and addresses for cross‑verification and prompted the then‑acting IRS commissioner’s resignation.