Report: IRS Commissioner Billy Long Ousted After Clash Over Using Illegal Aliens’ Data

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Billy Long was removed from his position hours after the IRS and the White House clashed over the usage of taxpayer information to find thousands of illegal aliens in the United States, according to a recent report

“Two people familiar with the situation” told the Washington Post that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had sent the IRS a list of roughly 40,000 people that “DHS officials thought were” in the U.S. illegally. The IRS was asked to “use confidential taxpayer data to verify their addresses.”

Per the outlet, on Friday, the IRS revealed that “it was able to verify fewer than 3 percent of the names immigration enforcement officials submitted.”

On Friday, though, the IRS responded that it was

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