Category: Audits and Enforcement

President Donald Trump has opened a new front in his long war with the tax authorities, filing a $10 billion lawsuit that accuses the federal government of failing at the most basic promise of the tax system: keeping personal returns secret. The complaint, lodged in Miami federal court, targets the Internal Revenue Service and the…

The Internal Revenue Service does not need to knock on your door or pore over your receipts to reach into your checking account. Its power to take money directly from a bank rests on collection tools that operate separately from the traditional audit process, and they can move faster than most taxpayers expect. I want…

The Treasury Department has taken the extraordinary step of cutting off one of Washington’s most entrenched contractors after a former employee leaked private tax data for President Donald Trump and other ultra-wealthy Americans. By terminating every agreement with Booz Allen Hamilton, officials are signaling that a single breach inside the Internal Revenue Service can now…

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has ordered a nationwide cleanup of its rental assistance rolls after an internal review flagged thousands of ineligible or fictitious tenants, including people who are dead or lack required documentation. The agency has given local housing authorities and private landlords just 30 days to scrub their files, a…

President Trump has turned immigration enforcement into one of the defining projects of his presidency, and the scale is now visible on streets, in detention centers, and deep inside the federal budget. His signature tax and spending cuts package quietly unlocked a vast stream of money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, creating what critics describe…

The Trump team has walked away from a controversial plan to fold the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives into the Drug Enforcement Administration after an unusually unified backlash from both gun control advocates and gun rights groups. The reversal halts an internal Justice Department effort that would have redrawn the map of federal…

Federal investigators have quietly launched a criminal probe into Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, focusing on whether state and local leaders illegally interfered with immigration enforcement operations. According to a person familiar with the matter, the inquiry centers on an alleged effort by Minnesota Democrats to impede federal agents during a…

President Donald Trump has ordered a sweeping halt to some of the harshest collection tools used against borrowers who have fallen into default on federal student loans. The administration is freezing wage garnishment, tax refund seizures, and other involuntary collections, giving millions of struggling borrowers a temporary reprieve as the government rethinks how it pursues…

Tariffs were sold as a way to make foreign producers pay, but the latest Federal Reserve survey shows the bill is increasingly landing in American checkout lines. From groceries to machinery, higher import duties are quietly being folded into prices, turning trade policy into a stealth tax on shoppers. The shift is subtle, but it…