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Trump admin plans IRS overhaul to probe left-leaning groups more easily, WSJ reports

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The Trump administration is preparing to make changes to the IRS that would allow the agency to launch criminal investigations of left-leaning groups, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.The Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter, the push centers on installing Trump allies at the IRS criminal-investigative (IRS-CI) division and reducing the involvement of agency lawyers in those criminal probes.Those changes could allow politically motivated probes to be pursued, and they're being driven by Gary Shapley, an advisor to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, according...

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