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Trump’s hardball moves leave fired federal workers few paths to fight for their jobs back
After firing tens of thousands of federal workers this year, President Donald Trump has also made it much harder for them to ...
A credit union and a WSU program have one goal: Help people see when they're being scammed
A credit union branch manager says it's not enough to ask fraught customers what they will do with that cash. Con artists ...
Legal expert backs Trump admin's crackdown on Harvard: 'Accountability must be enforced'
StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department Director Yael Lerman said the Trump administration is right to end grant funding to ...
Whistleblowers Who Defied Credit Suisse Are About to Share Up to $150 Million
The former employees set to strike it rich for telling U.S. authorities Credit Suisse wasn’t living up to its promise to ...
Bessent says $2 billion cut from IRS technology budget without disruptions
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday said the Trump administration has cut $2 billion from the IRS information ...
The IRS Dropped Paper Checks—How This Affects Your Tax Refund
The U.S. Treasury is phasing out paper checks by September 2025. Here’s how this change could impact your next IRS tax refund ...
2025 tax season: What do returns look like so far this year?
New data from the Internal Revenue Service shows that the average tax refund amount is up over 3% from a year ago, though the ...
Feds’ latest tool in push to curb immigration: Workers’ tax IDs
The agreement will allow the immigration agency to submit the names and addresses of people living in the United States ...
DOGE Was Never About Saving Money
Then Trump took office, and DOGE began its very real stampede through the government. As an effort to meaningfully reduce ...
Elon Musk's DOGE Cuts To IRS Could Mean 'Christmas Coming Early' To 'Wealthy Tax Dodgers,' Warn Experts
The Trump administration is drastically reducing the workforce at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), a move that could ...
Grandview woman sentenced to prison for filing false tax returns, ordered to repay IRS $1.1M
Sandra Mondaine of Grandview, Mo., was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison and must repay over $1.1 million to the IRS ...
IRS mandates weekend overtime to clear tax error backlog, internal memo sparks staff concerns
Even though this year's tax filing season is over, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is ordering some employees to work overtime to cover tax error backlogs.