IRS chief Melanie Krause resigns after agency agrees to hand over immigrants’ data to ICE

Published April 9, 2025 8:34am ET



The acting head of the IRS reportedly plans to resign shortly after a data-sharing agreement between the IRS and the Department of Homeland Security was announced.

Melanie Krause will resign via the deferred resignation program set up by the Trump administration over disagreements with the IRS’s direction, according to the Washington Post. Krause’s resignation will be the third by an IRS chief this year.

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