I guess she wasn't that interested. Or didn't like people doing it all behind her back. Or didn't want to be left holding the bag when the IRS started breaking federal law.
Melanie Krause, who had served as acting commissioner of the IRS since February, will step down following Monday's signing of a memorandum of agreement between Treasury Secretary
Scott Bessentand Homeland Security Secretary
Kristi Noem. The deal allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement (
ICE) to submit names and addresses of undocumented immigrants to the IRS to cross-check them with tax filings, the sources said.
Although Krause participated in early discussions about a possible interagency agreement with DHS, she reportedly did not approve or help draft the final version.
According to
CNN, she learned about the final deal through news coverage.
Multiple senior [IRS] staff, including Acting Chief Counsel William Paul, have been removed or resigned, and legal experts have warned that the new data-sharing policy may violate federal confidentiality laws.
A collection of tax law experts for the NYU Tax Law Center said: "It is difficult to see how the IRS could release information to DHS while complying with taxpayer privacy statutes…IRS officials who sign off on data sharing under these circumstances risk breaking the law, which could result in criminal and civil sanctions."