Aside from Tax Day-related questions, Senate Finance Democrats used Wednesday’s hearing to push for answers on the IRS’s data-sharing agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and a Social Security Administration whistleblower complaint about DOGE uploading Americans’ data to a “vulnerable” cloud server.
Bisignano mostly sidestepped questions about the tax agency’s memorandum of understanding with ICE, citing ongoing litigation regarding the legality of that agreement.
Cortez Masto noted that a federal judge ruled that the IRS broke the law more than 42,000 times by sharing some taxpayer information with ICE. And the SSA whistleblower report, from the agency’s former chief data officer, alleged that a DOGE staffer took databases with him on a thumb drive.
“If you go through our priorities, it’s protecting Americans’ data, it’s driving higher service and improving collections for IRS, right?” Bisignano said. “And we brought in outside to look at it, to ensure that we weren’t just looking at it internally, and to ensure that we’re protecting the data, a total outside review of it.”
Bisignano confirmed that SSA’s inspector general is investigating the allegations against DOGE. He told Whitehouse that “we don’t see any data that left the house.”
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