More Reported Information Has Come Out To Explain Trump Firing IRS Chief

The Trump administration reportedly fired Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Chief Billy Long for refusing to release tax information on illegal migrants, The Washington Post reported.

A deal was worked out in April between the Treasury Department — parent agency of the IRS — and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), two people familiar with the situation told The Washington Post. The IRS would send taxpayer data to verify the addresses of about 40,000 people DHS thinks are in the United States illegally.

DHS officials later suggested that they would eventually need tax information of about 7 million people thought to be in the U.S. illegally, The Washington Post reported. There are reportedly about 11 million illegal migrants in the U.S.

Privacy lawyers at the IRS objected to the data sharing, arguing that this information is confidential.