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IRS CEO Frank Bisignano, center, talks with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., right, in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 4, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

House passes two bills to modernize IRS operations

The BARCODE Efficiency Act and the Taxpayer Experience Improvement Act would embrace technology and help the IRS “be an agency more worthy of the taxpayers it serves.”

By Matt Bracken

US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum testifies at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on fiscal year 2027 budget requests for the Department of Interior, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on April 22, 2026. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

Interior still grapples with probate backlog even with AI assistance

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By Lindsey Wilkinson

Federal employees rally in support of their jobs outside of the Kluczynski Federal Building on March 19, 2025, in Chicago. The rally was organized by the National Treasury Employees Union to voice concerns about the mass firing of federal workers by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Federal union projects to lose ‘tens of thousands’ of members, court filing shows

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Protesters gather outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. The group of federal employees and supporters are protesting against Elon Musk, tech billionaire and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and his aids who have been given access to federal employee personal data and have allegedly locked out career civil servants from the OPM computer systems. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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Advocacy groups and community members protest laws surrounding data centers while outside the Texas Capitol in Austin Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. (Mikala Compton/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)

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Michael Selig, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, appears during a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Nov. 19, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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An organizational flag flies outside of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. on February 7, 2025 as demonstrators gather to protest federal layoffs and demand the termination of Elon Musk from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). (Photo by Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP)

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IRS CEO Frank Bisignano awaits the start of a hearing with the Senate Finance Committee on April 15, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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The U.S. Department of Energy building is seen behind a sign marking the location of the agency’s headquarters on March 18, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J.David Ake/Getty Images)

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Chase Ausley stands on stage behind a lecturn with the words "AI Talks" written on it in large block letters. A matching AITalks backdrop fills the stage behind him. He is wearing a navy suit with a red tie. — Chase Ausley, a director within the U.S. DOGE Service and senior advisor at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks on stage at AITalks on April 14, 2026. (Photo via Scoop News Group)

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