Ron Wyden: “Medicare is not a piece of paper. It is not a slip. It is not some kind of voucher or arrangement. It is a guarantee.”

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 throws doubt upon Treasury’s interpretation of many provisions of the Code, creates a great deal of uncertainty in the administration of our tax laws, and could balloon the deficit.

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