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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rhian Lubin

‘This is an administration priding itself on revenge’: Ex-IRS head sounds alarm over Trump’s weaponization of agency

A former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service has warned that the Trump administration is weaponizing the agency and “priding itself on revenge.”

John Koskinen, who held the role of IRS commissioner from 2013 to 2017, has sounded the alarm as the agency is considering revoking Harvard University’s tax-exempt status following the public fallout with President Donald Trump, and has agreed it will share undocumented immigrants’ taxpayer data with the Department of Homeland Security.

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