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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Gustaf Kilander

IRS clashed with White House over pulling immigrants’ data before Trump fired commissioner Billy Long: report

The Internal Revenue Service and the White House squabbled over the use of tax data to find suspected undocumented immigrants just hours before Trump administration officials pushed out IRS Commissioner Billy Long on Friday, according to a new report Saturday.

On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security sent a list to the IRS with more than 40,000 names that officials at the department believed were in the country illegally and asked that the IRS use confidential taxpayer information to confirm their addresses, anonymous sources told The Washington Post.

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