Ron Wyden: “The way tax laws are interpreted by the IRS can affect public confidence.”

The Department’s recent decision in August 2026 to quietly strip explicit prohibitions against political interference from its Scientific Integrity Policy is yet another attempt by the Trump administration to undermine scientific facts and…

Turning the 1040 into an immigration tracker actively sabotages voluntary tax compliance and undermines the IRS’s core tax collection responsibilities.

This is another desperate attempt by a failed president to escape Americans’ revulsion with his failed agenda, amounting to one tank of Trump-inflated gas.

This interpretation is wildly inconsistent with the longstanding treatment of other provisions that use identical or near-identical language.