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.

A declaration from the tax agency’s chief risk and control officer revealed incomplete data requests from ICE that the IRS fulfilled, violating an MOU and potentially federal…

A letter led by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., hammers Treasury’s “refusal to answer basic questions” about the pact and requests responses from Scott Bessent by Feb. 16.