Welcome to The Logoff. Today I have an update on the fight over your tax data, where the Trump administration has backed off a plan to give a DOGE staffer access to ultra-sensitive tax information.

Wait, what did the White House want? The White House wanted the IRS to allow a DOGE team member to access the system that contains taxpayers’ records, personal identification numbers, and banking information, supposedly to fight fraud.

IRS officials were alarmed by a plan that would hand an outsider access to tax data at the individual level. Critics sued to block the plan, arguing it posed massive privacy risks........

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