The Department of Homeland Security unit increased its annual target of arrests of individuals with criminal history or pending charges after more than doubling its 2025 goal.

Signed by 115 lawmakers, the filing makes the case that the IRS-ICE pact “improperly challenges” Congress’s power to protect taxpayer information and will deprive the federal government…

Former agency staffers and experts believe the independent financial regulators’ MOU won’t “shake everything up,” but data and technology callouts bear watching.

The president’s executive order creates a task force to combat fraud and promote more data-sharing between federal agencies and state, local, tribal and territorial governments.

The watchdog also encouraged the SBA to address inefficiencies in the Disaster Loan Program by pursuing a new legal authority to secure taxpayer consent for applications.

Democratic lawmakers pressed Frank Bisignano on the IRS-ICE data-sharing agreement. The CEO said the tax agency is prioritizing risk management and touted its AI work.

The tax agency’s process for identity matching violated the Internal Revenue Code, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in a Thursday court filing.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said immigrants’ rights groups were unlikely to succeed on claims that the data-sharing pact violated tax code or circumvented agency rule-making.

Despite efforts to modernize processes, the agency relies on manual data entry and has an inoperable system that can’t receive and store reports.

The report comes just days after President Trump signed a law permanently authorizing the SSA to share its death data with Treasury’s Do Not Pay system.