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IRS Shake-up and Panama Power Play
Leadership turmoil continues to plague the Internal Revenue Service as Acting Commissioner Melanie Krause becomes the third chief to resign in just four months. Her departure, coming at the height of tax season, appears to be a direct protest against a controversial data-sharing agreement that will allow taxpayer information to be used for identifying undocumented immigrants. The agreement, signed directly between Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and Homeland Security Secretary Christie Gnome, notably bypassed Krause's authority, suggesting significant internal tensions over immigration enforcement priorities.
The resignation highlights the complex intersection of tax administration and immigration policy. For years, many undocumented immigrants have filed taxes using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, with an understanding that tax compliance existed separately from immigration enforcement. This new agreement fundamentally alters that dynamic, potentially creating ripple effects across both tax compliance and immigration communities. What makes this particularly noteworthy is the timing - just before the April tax deadline when the IRS is already stretched thin with processing returns.
Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made headlines with a forceful stance at the Panama Canal, directly challenging China's growing influence in the region. Standing with the strategic waterway as his backdrop, Hegseth declared: "China did not build this canal. China does not operate this canal and China will not weaponize this canal." His promise to "take back the canal from China's influence" signals a broader shift in America's approach to Beijing's economic expansion, from high-level diplomatic confrontations to grassroots resistance in small towns like the Michigan community that successfully blocked a CCP-linked battery factory. As tariffs escalate and tensions mount, these developments reveal a multi-pronged strategy to counter Chinese influence both domestically and globally.
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Hello, good morning, happy Wednesday. Let's have a good one, and I think we shall. All right, we are going over here to talk about a couple of articles from the New York Post. The first one is head of IRS to resign in protest as Agency Inc's deal to share tax data on illegal immigrants with DHS. Now I don't know why she decided to resign over this, who knows? However, she's the third one in this year to resign and this is only April. So we're doing one a month. Right Now. We need a fourth one, since this is April, and I think Doge the other day. I saw a couple days ago I saw on X where Doge said they were headed over to the IRS and that's what they were doing next. So here we go. This is what we're finding out over here, apparently. Now let me go find my article. It's disappeared. All right, here we go. Oh, my gosh, gosh, y'all. I'm so sorry. Okay, the acting head acting head because they have not done a permanent one, since two others had resigned before her.
Speaker 1:The acting head of the uh internal revenue service will resign in the wake of a deal struck on behalf of the agency that will see it share tax data on undocumented immigrants. So who penned this deal? She had to have done that right, and then why would she resign? I don't know. I don't know. Um to share this is to. The deal was to share the data with the, with the other agency, the. Let's read on. Melanie krause, a commissioner at the irs, who is the third person to serve as its chief since the start of the year, will pack up her desk as part of the deferred resignation program offered by the trump administration. The treasury department announced tuesday. The news of her plans to leave the federal agency comes less than a week before the deadline for individual tax returns. Huh, I wonder if we're going to get our money late. Oh, I'm not getting any money from the federal government, that's for sure. Excuse me. Krause decided to resign in an apparent protest to the Trump administration action.
Speaker 1:Sources told the Washington Post Melanie Krause has been leading the IRS through a time of extraordinary change. A Treasury Department spokesperson told the outlet, adding the department was in the midst of breaking down data silos that for too long have stood in the way of identifying waste and fraud and abuse, bringing criminals to justice. The tax collecting agency had just finalized an agreement with the department of homeland security to share taxpayer data to help the immigration authority identify undocumented immigrants. Since she was the head of it, didn't she have to sign off on that? Um, but yet she's resigning in protest over it. The data sharing deal was signed monday by treasury secretary scott besant and homeland security secretary christie gnome, bypassing Krause as the head of the IRS, which is part of the Treasury Department.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, there you go, that's why. So what does this tell you? That immigrants? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Let me correct myself that illegal aliens coming here, crossing our borders criminal is a criminal act. Yet the IRS, or whoever under the Biden administration, was passing out social security numbers, giving them $1,500 a month, all this other aid going to them, probably passing out driver's licenses, you know, because voter ID, uh, yeah, which is probably why the Democrats don't want voter ID, so they don't have to mess with giving out the driver's license. But yet you know the illegals are getting driver's license. Look around All these. Oh, just, it's terrible, it's terrible.
Speaker 1:All right, we're going to move on to the next story, and then I have the question of the day from Mr Shons. All right, pete Hegseth in the Panama Canal. He went down there, I guess, to take back Panama Canal from China's influence. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pledged that the Trump administration would take back the Panama Canal from Chinese influence on Tuesday during a visit to the key shipping lane. China did not build this canal. You did not build this China. China does not operate this canal and China will not weapon build this canal. You did not build this China. China does not operate this canal and China will not weaponize this canal.
Speaker 1:The Pentagon chief said in remarks from Panama with the strategic waterway as his backdrop. Together with Panama in the lead, we will keep the canal secure and available for all nations. Together, we will take back the canal from China's influence. Pete added we are getting hot and heavy with China, are we not? Didn't the tariffs just go up like 104? Why 104 percent? I think I swear I read that somewhere. Somebody said 104 percent because you know, we put the tariffs in place, china retaliated and then we did it again. We upped it again to why 104? I don't know, maybe I'm incorrect on that. President Trump has sought to reclaim the canal from Panama City, citing national security concerns yes, over Chinese-owned companies being allowed to operate port facilities on both the entry and exit points of the waterway, as well as much of the infrastructure that surround us. So, yeah, china is definitely elbowing their way in to anything America.
Speaker 1:There was a small town, I think, in Michigan and I wrote about it on the Victory Girls blog. I'll go find the link because it's like a week or so old, so it's buried down in the in the website somewhere and I will put it out on X. But I it was a really good story that I wrote about the small town in Michigan somewhere decided to first toss out all of their city governing people because they were not doing what they wanted to do and then, once they got the new people in place I guess they voted down. Or I wrote about it over there, you have to go read it. This Chinese company wanted to come in and build a factory to make batteries, you know, for electric cars over here and the people were not having it because it's Chinese, they had ties to CCP, all this stuff. It's long and drawn out, but basically the little people in this town of like 1,200 people stood up and said no, we're not having it. Maybe it was 3,200 people, it was a small number but they organized and they did it. I was very impressed and it gave me hope and inspiration that you know we still have it here in America, that we can do this.
Speaker 1:All right, mr Shons wants to know, with Holy Week fast approaching, what is your favorite movie slash film about the life of Christ? And I'm going to have to say it's going to be the Mel Gibson one, the Passion of the Christ. Wow, I saw that in theaters when it came out. Oh goodness gracious, that was a good one. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1:My question, in fact I was thinking about this on the way to work because I'm listening to the podcast A Bible in a Year. I have lots of questions, but the first question is, since I'm listening to this, I guess we're coming up on the end of the Old Testament that's what Christians call it, the Old Testament before Christ came into the scene, and I think we're wrapping it up. We're on like 240, 250 something days now. I'm like when are we going to get into, you know, the New Testament, because you only don't know how many days left if it's a Bible in a year and you got Revelations to talk about, oh, my gosh. Anyway, my question is oh gosh, I forgot my question. Hold on.
Speaker 1:So right now, father Mike is talking about Daniel and he I can't remember exactly everything he talked about in this current episode that I'm listening to, but he was saying how God used people flawed people to fulfill or, you know, to make things or to not make things happen, but I guess make things happen I don't know if that's the right word, the term I'm looking for and he talked about Judas, you know, when he betrayed Jesus. My question it kind of contradicts everything. You know, if this was all supposed to be fulfilled anyway, as we've always been taught, this whole, you know, it was a prophecy. Jesus knew this was going to happen. Maybe he didn't know how it was going to happen. I'm not sure, but I mean to me he didn't know how it was going to happen. I'm not sure, but I mean to me, uh, judas was supposed to do this right. I mean, if this to order in order for it to happen, okay, I think you know what I'm talking about. I hope you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:Okay, I gotta go. Uh, we're coming up on 10 minutes anyway, so lots to talk about. Okay, gotta go. Thanks for listening. Go check out anamericanistcom Comment. Share my content over there, please. Okay, gotta go. Thanks for listening. Love y'all. Bye.
