Shedding thousands of staff and several interim leaders, the IRS faces turmoil under Trump - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : To that point, "Harvard was on no one's radar screen for issues about tax-exempt status," the IRS official said.
51% : Making the situation more dire is an unprecedented exodus at the staff level, spurred on by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
48% : Tax watchdogs like Stephen Ellis, president of the nonpartisan group Taxpayers For Common Sense, share the alarm that the situation at the IRS could have wide-ranging consequences.
45% : The return of President Trump, and his aggressive campaign to remake the government, has particularly roiled the sober tax collection agency whose activity in the past has drawn the ire of conservatives.
43% : In April, the administration moved to empower Immigration and Customs Enforcement to request information from the IRS about undocumented migrants they are targeting for deportation, which was not previously allowed.
43% : " Beyond that, studies have consistently shown that investment in the IRS yields back additional returns through improved tax enforcement.
39% : But by April 8, she had decided to resign, in protest of the decision to share immigrants' tax information with ICE.
39% : Instead, Musk had directly appealed to Trump to elevate Shapley.
36% : "The departures, the pressure on the IRS, the changes at the top, are clearly going to make operations much more difficult and impede the ability of the IRS to meet its responsibility," said John Koskinen, who was IRS commissioner for the last three years of Barack Obama's presidency and the first year of Trump's.
10% : It began on the eve of Trump's inauguration in January, when then-IRS commissioner Danny Werfel resigned rather than be fired by Trump, who had already named his own pick to run the agency.

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