IRS CEO largely dodges questions about data sharing at IRS, SSA

Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive Officer Frank Bisignano testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 04, 2026. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The IRS chief executive officer, Frank Bisignano, largely declined to offer specifics when asked about unlawful disclosures of taxpayer data to Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Wednesday. 

Last week, a federal judge found that the IRS had broken the law in erroneously sharing thousands of peoples’ information with ICE over the summer as part of an agreement between the Treasury Department and the Department of Homeland Security to share IRS data on immigrants with ICE. 

Bisignano, who is also the head of the Social Security Administration, confirmed that no one at the IRS had been disciplined or fired because of the disclosures. 

But he cited “current litigation” when asked ...