The Inspector of the Ministry of Finance is the efforts of President Donald Trump and the government’s government efficiency department Elon Musk to obtain private taxpayers and other confidential information, internal communication, considered by Propublica Show.
The Office of the General Inspector of the Treasury of the Tax Administration appealed to extensive information from the IRS employees. In particular, the Office requires any request for taxpayers from the President, the Presidential Executive Bureau, the Dogel or the Presidential Administration and the presidential budget.
The request spelled out in mid -April received propublica comes as Observations and leading Democrats Or exceeded its borders in search of information about taxpayers, civil servants or federal agencies, which are usually very limited.
It seems that this review is in the early stages – one of the documents describes the staff as “the beginning of the preliminary planning” – but the email sends the IRS to overcoming specific documents by Thursday, April 24. It is not clear what happened.
For example, the general inspector is looking for, “all requests for the taxpayer or other security information from the President or the President Omb or DOGE. Include any information on how the request plans to use the requested information, the IRS response and the legal basis for the IRS response,” the email reads.
The study also asks for information on access to IRS systems from any executive agency, including the Home Security Department, the Social Security and DOGE administration.
The General Inspector of the Treasury of the Tax Administration, known as Tigta, heads the acting Inspector General HIG. If Trump fired 17 Inspectors General In a number of federal agencies in January, those who work in the Treasury were not among.
The White House, Dodge, Omb and Musk did not respond to requests on Friday’s comments.
Before, before, Administration said“Those who lead this mission with Elon Musk do so in full implementation of the federal legislation, relevant security and as employees of the relevant agencies, not as the borders of advisers and legal entities.”
The Tigta press -secretary Beck D’ambrosio said the agency “does not reveal specific details of the current work and terms”. She said the office received some requests from Congress. “If possible, we include these requests in our permanent work that provides independent IRS activity.”
In the request of April 15, the concerns of some within the IRS staff led by Musk were incorrectly addressed to the taxpayers’ information or shared it with other government agencies, stated that several people who were familiar with the issue, featuring revenge.
Earlier this month, A group of Democratic Senators called on the General Inspector of the Treasury to investigate Whether the Trump administration “violated the strict laws on the privacy of taxpayers”, giving Dogee wide access to the agency.
“The taxpayers stored by the IRS are subject to one of the strongest privacy protection in accordance with the federal law, which may cause civilian and criminal sanctions,” the lawmakers wrote at their request.
In March, three senators said they are worried about The IRS reports concluded a shared use agreement to help the Internal Security Department “find suspects in unregistered immigrants”. Trump promised deportation on a large -scale scale.
Senator Ron Widen’s press secretary, one of the subscribers of both requests, refused to comment. DHS sent a request for a propublica commentary to a Treasury that did not respond.
The inspector’s general exam takes place against the backdrop of the main turmoil in the Treasury and the IRS when the administration goes to the dismissal of thousands of agencies and DOGE deepens into the IRS database. Melanie Krauz resigned when acting as the IRS commissioner after the agency reached the taxpayer exchange agreement with DHS.
Former high -ranking Tigta official told Propublica that the review could lead to a criminal investigation if the reviewers find evidence of the legislation. The same official said that it is possible that those who conduct the review may face political consequences, as well as the points of prosecutors, FBI agents, law firms and others who have questioned Trump’s actions.
Electronic letters from the IRS IRS staff at the beginning of this month were asked to provide copies of any written agreements to exchange taxpayers with organizations, including the Homeland Security Department, the Social Security Administration, the Dog Management Management or other agencies.
It is also looking for a complete list of employees that are not included in the IRS in DOGE or its affiliates. This year PROPUBLICA was Profiling the figures running on the DOGE.
Daniel Sitron, a leading scientist at the University of Virginia, said the e -mail suggests that the general inspector could check for violations of the law on privacy, which requires agencies to provide citizens’ information and share it only in the government in specific cases. According to her, such an agreement on the distribution of data seeking Trump’s administration is “exactly what is designed to avoid the privacy law”.
CNN and Wired reported that the cattle tries to build a major database that combines information with IRS, DHS, Social Insurance Administration and other agencies. The database will be used for forced execution, outlets reports.
This is not the first time when the Trump administration’s decisions in the IRS have caused an investigation into the Inspector.
According to Propublica, the senior lawyer of the IRS warned the agency’s heads in late February that his plan is on stop almost 7,000 test staff based on poor work was untrue and “fraud”. The IRS continued the dismissal that has since been challenged in the federal court.
After his dismissal, the IRS IRS inspector began to study massive stops, said a man acquainted with an effort who had no right to talk to journalists. The status of the probe is not known.
