Washington, D.C. — Following Washington Post reporting that the IRS improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of individuals with immigration enforcement officials at the Department of Homeland Security, Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chair Adriano Espaillat led 36 Members of Congress in a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent demanding immediate answers and accountability. The letter details how the IRS disclosed taxpayer addresses based on demonstrably inadequate data — including records where ICE supplied entries like “Failed to Provide,” “Unknown Address,” and “NA NA” — exactly the kind of reckless errors that Members of Congress warned about in three separate amicus briefs filed in federal court over the past year.
The letter outlines how the administration deliberately circumvented the IRS’s longstanding privacy safeguards: sidelining the agency’s privacy department, removing decades-old protections from the Internal Revenue Manual, and directing staff to bypass career legal reviewers who had blocked earlier requests as unlawful. In November 2025, the D.C. District Court sided with arguments raised by the CHC, ruling that the IRS’s data-sharing with ICE violated federal law and was arbitrary and capricious. The Members demand the government notify every affected individual so they can exercise their legal right to compensation under federal law, and that officials responsible for the unlawful disclosures be held accountable.
“The IRS promised taxpayers their information would be kept confidential — and this administration broke that promise,” said CHC Chair Espaillat. “We warned the courts this would happen, and it did. We are demanding full transparency, notification of every affected individual, and accountability for every official who made this possible.”
The full letter is available HERE.
About the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC)
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) is over 42 members strong. The CHC serves as a forum for the Hispanic Members of Congress to coalesce around a collective legislative agenda. The Caucus is dedicated to voicing and advancing, through the legislative process, issues affecting Hispanics in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. For more information, please visit chc.house.gov.