Some Democrats, including Sens. Ron Wyden (Ore.), the ranking member on the tax-writing Finance Committee, and Mark Warner (Va.), are now pushing to curb investment breaks for data centers.
“Massive corporations should pay their fair share,” Wyden said in a statement. “This starts by fixing the corporate income tax” including “repealing big giveaways for data centers.”…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/14/corporate-tax-payments-ai-01071550
“Weaponizing the IRS to attack colleges and universities that uphold and expand civil rights is outrageous,” Todd Wolfson, the group’s president, said in a statement. “This is blatantly racist political coercion intended to deny minority students reparative opportunities to further their education.”
Mike Gavin, head of the Alliance for Higher Education, said the “administration’s latest rules changes are its most blatant attack to keep working class Americans and people of color from accessing higher education and a better life.”…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/03/irs-universities-tax-exempt-status-01063478
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/02/nx-s1-5954022/irs-tax-collection-job-reductions
“In many years of paying taxes, I’ve never had a problem with the IRS. So, I was surprised to receive a letter dated May 25 informing us that my husband and I owe lots more money than we had paid for our 2025 taxes—and of course interest and fines. After reviewing the somewhat cryptic letter, we realized that we did not, in fact, owe any money. The IRS had simply failed to credit quarterly payments that we’d made on time. Because we had all the bank records, it seemed as if this would be a relatively straightforward problem to fix—until I picked up the phone and called the IRS.
“Two hours on hold later, I gave up. When I tried again a few days later, the outgoing message informed me, “Due to the high call volume, we are unable to answer your call. Please call back later today or tomorrow.” And I was disconnected…”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/the-irs-is-imploding/
“The nature of the suit itself and the conduct of the parties and counsel from its filing make plain that this was an attempt to use the court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the president and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law,” she wrote.
“The court finds that this matter was brought for an improper purpose – to gain the imprimatur of judicial legitimacy for a ‘settlement’ that had no viable basis in law or fact,” she added.
Her ruling blocks both Trump, his sons, and business, and the government from “using, offering, admitting, or citing” anything from the so-called settlement agreement in any kind of proceeding...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/13/trump-irs-ruling-judge-kathleen-williams
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/13/trump-irs-lawsuit-judge-00994874
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/30/trump-irs-suit-reopened
In announcing a new $1.776 billion fund to compensate people the Trump administration says were victims of judicial "weaponization," the Justice Department said a 2011 legal settlement involving Native American farmers provides precedent.
The 2011 settlement differs from the new fund in at least four ways: It had more specific standards for receiving compensation; significant judicial oversight; a smaller dollar amount for a potentially larger group of beneficiaries; and a more standard process for creating the fund...
