The request comes as Trump boasts about curtailing the IRS, whose agents focus on tax violations and other financial crimes.

The Department of Homeland Security is seeking the assistance of the IRS to help expel illegal immigrants from the country. ...

For years, Republicans, including President Donald Trump, have railed against the IRS and its cadre of armed agents.

Law enforcement officers for the Internal Revenue Service typically investigate tax-related crimes. Homeland Security ...

United States Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wants to deputize Internal Revenue Service employees to perform ...

Noem sent a letter on Feb. 7 to the Treasury Secretary to request agents to help dig in to human trafficking networks, find ...

The request marks the Trump administration’s latest effort to devote more federal resources to fulfill his campaign pledge to ...

Noem is asking Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to deputize IRS criminal investigators to assist, according to The Wall Street Journal. In her letter to Bessent, Noem suggested her plan is based on an ...

The Department of Homeland Security asked the Treasury Secretary to deputize IRS criminal investigators to assist in immigration enforcement ...

The secretary asked Bessent for IRS investigators who could help her department determine whether certain money flowed to human trafficking networks, or whether businesses employ illegal migrants.