{"id":3957,"date":"2025-08-19T18:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3957"},"modified":"2025-08-19T18:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:16:43","slug":"trump-fires-irs-commissioner-for-attempting-to-protect-illegal-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3957","title":{"rendered":"Trump Fires IRS Commissioner For Attempting To Protect Illegal Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Trump Fires IRS Chief Over Immigration Clash<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trump administration has sent a clear signal: \u201cThe protection of illegal immigrants from enforcement actions will not be accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IRS Commissioner Billy Long was fired after refusing to fully cooperate with a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) request to verify addresses of 40,000 suspected illegal immigrants using taxpayer data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IRS confirmed fewer than 3% \u2014 a move seen by Trump allies as obstructing immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Long insisted the IRS would only share data \u201cwithin the limited scope of its existing agreements with DHS,\u201d defying a broader directive from Trump expanding ICE\u2019s access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shift in Leadership and Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will take over the IRS temporarily. The Treasury thanked Long but emphasized a shift toward \u201ca different course\u201d in line with Trump\u2019s stricter immigration agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IRS Overhaul in Progress<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IRS is also undergoing deep cuts \u2014 a 25% workforce reduction \u2014 as part of Trump\u2019s broader effort to shrink the agency and enforce immigration law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Fires IRS Chief Over Immigration Clash The Trump administration has sent a clear signal: \u201cThe protection of illegal immigrants from enforcement actions will not be accepted.\u201d IRS Commissioner Billy Long was fired after refusing to fully cooperate with a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) request to verify addresses of 40,000 suspected illegal immigrants using&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3959,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions\/3959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}