Bernie Becker

It’s all eyes on the Senate Finance Committee, which is working to produce its especially key portion of the GOP megabill this week.

It’s time for senators to start invoking their privilege on the GOP megabill.

The Senate returns next week to take center stage in the debate over the one big, beautiful bill, after a couple months where the large fiscal package seemingly stood on a knife’s edge in the House.

Over the weekend, Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith said that IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel sent a memo to employees on Friday informing them of their legal right to make protected disclosures to Congress.

The legislation now heads to the full House, but with a major blank to fill in on how much to expand a deduction for state and local taxes.

House Republicans find themselves in a bit of a mess in trying to put together one large fiscal package.

Chuck Schumer and three other senators want the IRS watchdog to investigate.

IRS agrees to share tax data with immigration authorities

Melanie Krause has been acting IRS commissioner for less than six weeks, and her pending exit comes after the agency inked a controversial information-sharing deal with immigration officials.

The plan may result in a short-term increase in arrests for the White House to tout, but former and current government officials warn that the significant policy shift could cause long-term damage.