Keep fighting to protect all taxpayers' information from being leaked and to hold the Trump administration accountable for illegal taxpayer data disclosures.

We’ll keep fighting to protect all taxpayers’ information from being leaked and to hold the Trump administration accountable.

Sánchez and other Ways and Means Democrats committed to continue fighting to prevent taxpayer information leaks and hold the Trump administration accountable after an inspector general confirmed an illegal IRS disclosure to DHS.

Trump IRS illegally leaked 47,000 taxpayers’ private data to DHS, inspector general confirms | Congresswoman Linda Sanchez
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AP reported that a newly released Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report found security and matching concerns in the 2025 IRS-ICE taxpayer data-sharing arrangement. ICE requested address information on more than 1.2 million people, and the IRS provided last-known addresses for about 47,000 people; TIGTA found inconsistent formatting and questionable matches, and the report made no formal recommendations.

Most recent located evidence near the lookback window shows the taxpayer-data disclosure controversy remained active and unresolved, with an official watchdog identifying problems but not delivering a complete remedy.

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A watchdog report flags security risks in the IRS-ICE taxpayer data-sharing deal
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AP reported that IRS CEO Frank Bisignano appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee and declined to answer Democratic lawmakers' questions about unlawful taxpayer-data disclosures to ICE. He said no IRS employee had been fired or disciplined, while two court orders still blocked large transfers and ICE use of IRS data.

Shows active Ways and Means oversight of the IRS-ICE disclosures, but no full accountability or policy fix. Sanchez serves on Ways and Means, though this report does not identify her personally as a questioner.

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IRS leader Bisignano declines to answer questions over unlawful taxpayer data disclosures to ICE
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AP reported that U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found the IRS violated confidentiality law about 42,695 times by disclosing last-known taxpayer addresses to ICE without confirming statutory requirements. The government was appealing, while separate court orders still blocked broad transfers and ICE use of IRS data.

Court findings support the substance of the accountability concern but also show the promise was not fully delivered because unlawful disclosures occurred and litigation continued.

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The IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential information to ICE 42,695 times, judge says
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The House Ways and Means Committee report found serious failures in the IRS mandatory presidential audit program during the Trump administration and documented the committee's review after obtaining protected tax materials under section 6103 procedures.

As a Ways and Means Democrat in the 117th Congress, Sanchez was part of the committee that pursued Trump tax oversight through official channels. This is concrete oversight activity, but it addressed presidential audit accountability more than the later taxpayer-data leak/disclosure problem.

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Report on the Internal Revenue Service's Mandatory Audit Program Under the Prior Administration (2017-2020)
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The Justice Department announced that former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn was sentenced to five years in prison for disclosing tax return information to news organizations, including information associated with Donald Trump and thousands of other taxpayers.

Official prosecution produced accountability for one major taxpayer-data leak, but this was an executive-branch criminal case rather than a Sanchez legislative deliverable and did not by itself prove systemic protections were fixed.

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Former IRS Contractor Sentenced for Disclosing Tax Return Information to News Organizations
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AP reported that the Justice Department paused implementation of a $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund tied to settlement of Trump's IRS tax-leak lawsuit, after court scrutiny and political backlash. Trump's legal team faced a June 12 deadline to respond to allegations about the settlement.

Within the lookback period, the Trump tax-leak accountability issue remained unsettled and subject to court and political scrutiny rather than finally resolved.

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Trump reconsidering $1.8 billion fund, AP source says, as Justice Department temporarily pauses it
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