Any delay in refunds could be financially devastating to millions of Americans who plan their budgets around timely refunds every spring.

These prohibitions have long prevented political appointees in previous administrations from accessing the private tax records of hundreds of millions of Americans.

Violations of these taxpayer privacy laws, including unauthorized access to or disclosure of tax returns and return information, can result in criminal penalties, including incarceration.

DOGE's meddling with IRS systems in the middle of tax filing season could, inadvertently or otherwise, cause breakdowns that may delay the issuance of tax refunds indefinitely.

There are serious statutory and regulatory restrictions on when employees outside the Treasury Department may gain access to tax return information.

Donald Trump fired the people who make sure you and your parents get the healthcare you need.

software engineers working for Musk seeking to gain access to tax return information have no right to hoover up taxpayer data and send that data back to any other part of the federal government and may be breaking the law if they are doing…

A judge just blocked Elon Musk and co-president Donald Trump from firing the financial cops at the CFPB who protect consumers from Wall Street scams.

If we have suddenly decided that diversity is not a core value of our country, there is a fundamental misunderstanding of what the American project is.

Those are folks who otherwise would be making discoveries that could benefit the public good.

If we don’t study these things, it becomes a lot harder to make coherent policy arguments for why we need to address societal problems.