WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – The Internal Revenue Service is debating whether to require taxpayers to disclose their citizenship status on next year’s tax forms, according to three people familiar with the situation, as the Trump administration intensifies its attempts to link federal agencies to its sprawling immigration enforcement and anti-fraud drive. IRS officials are considering two versions of Form 1040, the primary paperwork individuals use to report earnings and claim tax benefits, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional reprisals. The first version contains minor updates to reflect changes in tax laws. The second includes those updates and a check-box labeled: “Check this box if you are a non-U.S. citizen or have dual citizenship.” Representatives from the Treasury Department – the IRS’s parent agency – declined to comment on Friday. Immigrants, including those in the United States illegally, are required to file taxes and use the same IRS forms as tax filers with citizenship. Paying taxes has long been seen as a key factor for illegal immigrants to obtain legal status. “It’s just an effort to once again terrorize people with certain immigration statuses, and it’s another step of turning the IRS into an agency that collaborates with immigration authorities rather than being an agency that enforces and administers the tax laws,” said Nina Olson, executive director of the Center for Taxpayer Rights, an advocacy and low-income tax assistance organization. The Treasury Department and the Department of Homeland Security spent much of 2025 attempting to collaborate, sharing confidential taxpayer data with immigration officials to assist in the Trump administration’s deportation campaign. Olson’s organization filed a lawsuit, and a federal judge blocked the IRS from disclosing that data in November. The federal government has appealed the ruling. In February, the IRS admitted to the court that it had erroneously shared the data of more than 42,000 taxpayers with DHS. Disclosing a taxpayer’s personal information — including a name or address — outside of narrow legal exceptions carries stiff penalties, including jail time. President Donald Trump recently dropped a lawsuit against the IRS seeking $10 billion in damages after a tax agency contractor leaked his tax returns to media outlets. The contractor, Charles Littlejohn, is serving a five-year prison sentence. In exchange for dropping the suit, the Justice Department created a nearly $1.8 billion fund to pay supposed victims of “government weaponization.” As part of the settlement, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an agreement permanently barring the IRS from pursuing tax claims against Trump, his family or his businesses. The Trump administration has sought to aggressively police government benefits awarded to non-citizens. Federal law already prohibits undocumented immigrants from many entitlement programs, including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other benefits covering education and housing. Non-citizens, though, pay into those programs through income, payroll and sales taxes. Tax preparers nationwide reported encountering clients who said they were frightened to file their taxes in 2025 due to the IRS’s collaboration with immigration enforcement. That fear has fiscal consequences for the United States government. The Yale Budget Lab estimated that lower tax compliance rates among immigrant communities could lead to a $313 billion loss in federal revenue over the next decade. The IRS is considering other methods of determining a taxpayer’s citizenship status. Non-citizens can file taxes using a nine-digit “individual tax identification number” in place of a Social Security number. Tax officials have discussed differentiating codes to denote a filer’s immigration status, the people said. The New York Times first reported those deliberations. (Reporting by Jacob Bogage; Editing by Colleen Jenkins, Rosalba O’Brien and Nick Zieminski)

President Donald Trump confirmed Friday that he will not attend his eldest son’s wedding, opting instead to remain at the White House to focus on official duties. Donald Trump Jr. is set to wed Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson in a small ceremony on a private island in the Bahamas this weekend. “While I very much wanted to be with my son, Don Jr., and the newest member of the Trump Family, his soon to be wife, Bettina, circumstances pertaining to Government, and my love for the United States of America, do not allow me to do so,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “I feel it is important for me to remain in Washington, D.C., at the White House during this important time. Congratulations to Don and Bettina!” The couple is already legally married, Reuters reported, citing a marriage license filed Thursday in Palm Beach County, Florida. Trump Jr., 48, and Anderson, 39, became engaged in December and had reportedly considered holding the ceremony at the White House before choosing a more low-key venue. President Trump told reporters on Thursday that he would “try and make it,” but acknowledged, “this is not good timing for me.” “I have a thing called Iran and other things,” Trump said, referring to ongoing tensions and diplomatic discussions involving the Middle East. “That’s one I can’t win on. If I do attend, I get killed. If I don’t attend, I get killed,” he added, suggesting the media would criticize him regardless of his decision. “Hopefully they’re going to have a great marriage,” the president continued. Trump Jr. was previously married to former model and actress Vanessa Trump for 12 years before they divorced in 2018. They share five children together. Vanessa recently revealed she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. He later became engaged to Kimberly Guilfoyle, who was previously married to California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from 2001 to 2006. Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle broke up in 2024. Virginia Kruta contributed to this report.  

New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart gave President Donald Trump a warm welcome on Friday as the president prepared to deliver an economic address at a rally supporting Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY). “Without further ado, I’m grateful and honored and pleasured to introduce the 45th and 47th President of the United States of America, President Donald J. Trump,” Dart said.  After shaking Dart’s hand, Trump praised the Giants QB. New York Giants QB @JaxsonDart introduces @POTUS in New York!

WASHINGTON— Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard plans to release findings from a number of high-profile investigations before she departs her role as President Donald Trump’s spy chief, The Daily Wire has learned. Gabbard announced Friday that she will resign, sharing that her husband is battling “an extremely rare form of bone cancer” and that she must “step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle.” She will remain in her position until June 30, an intelligence official confirmed to The Daily Wire. Before departing, Gabbard intends to release findings tied to investigations into Havana Syndrome, formally known as Anomalous Health Incidents (AHIs), the COVID-19 pandemic, the weaponization of the federal government, the 2020 presidential election, and more, according to the official. These findings will likely be released in weekly installments over the next month. Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas will serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence following her departure, President Donald Trump announced on Friday. “Unfortunately, after having done a great job, Tulsi Gabbard will be leaving the Administration on June 30th,” he shared. “Her wonderful husband, Abraham, has been recently diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer, and she, rightfully, wants to be with him, bringing him back to good health as they currently fight a tough battle together.” “I have no doubt he will soon be better than ever,” Trump added. “Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her.” Gabbard served 15 months in her role as Director of National Intelligence, working to transform the intelligence community and restore public trust through reforms, many declassifications, aggressive transparency, revoking security clearances of intel officials who “abused public trust,” ditching DEI programs, and targeting foreign terrorist organizations. A second intelligence official told The Daily Wire that Gabbard oversaw the declassification of more than 500,000 pages of previously withheld government records as of May 2026. Her “ODNI 2.0” restructuring initiative also reduced agency bloat by more than 40%, saving taxpayers an estimated $700 million per year. Her declassifications included records tied to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., along with files related to Amelia Earhart’s disappearance and Biden administration documents outlining the federal government’s “Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism.” She has also aggressively worked to highlight the truths behind the “Russia Hoax” and how President Barack Obama’s administration weaponized intelligence to undermine Trump’s 2016 election victory. Earlier this year, Gabbard’s office announced that she had completed the largest intelligence community-wide “technology and cybersecurity modernization and investment effort” in American history. “Over the past year, we have taken meaningful steps to begin fulfilling that responsibility through the largest IC-wide technology investment and modernization effort in history,” Gabbard said at the time. “President Trump’s Intelligence Community is moving faster and more decisively on cybersecurity modernization and investments in IT than ever before, delivering stronger defenses, greater efficiency, and real cost savings for the American people.” The Trump administration could face an uphill battle to get another Director of National Intelligence confirmed, given that the current bickering between the president and Senate Republicans has been escalated by Trump’s endorsements against Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA). In the interim, Gabbard says she is focused on ensuring a smooth transition at ODNI. “I am fully committed to ensuring a smooth and thorough transition over the coming weeks so that you and your team experience no disruption in leadership or momentum,” she wrote in her letter to Trump. “It has been a profound honor to serve the American people as DNI.” WATCH:

This piece is part of MI x DW, a collaboration that brings Daily Wire readers exclusive commentary and research from the Manhattan Institute’s world-class team of scholars. *** Since before his inauguration, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made it known that, when it comes to the gig economy, a new sheriff was coming to town. Now, just months into his administration, he has launched a citywide crackdown on gig companies. Though promoted as a defense of workers, his campaign runs against what many of them want and need. Mamdani began by appointing Samuel Levine to lead the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. Levine, a veteran of the Federal Trade Commission under the Biden administration, was a key player in FTC Chair Lina Khan’s aggressive anti-business tenure. (See “Khan Job,” Spring 2026.) The DCWP has since become the primary vehicle for Mamdani’s anti-gig push. Declaring a “New Era of Accountability,” the mayor and Levine have promised stricter enforcement of gig-related laws, including the city’s 2023 minimum wage for app-based food-delivery workers and a newer rule requiring apps to display tipping prompts with a default suggestion of 10 percent. Right on cue, the administration launched a lawsuit against the gig firm Motoclick for allegedly stealing workers’ wages. The DCWP also announced a $5 million settlement with Uber Eats, HungryPanda, and Fantuan for violating the 2023 minimum-wage law. It’s hard to evaluate these moves without full access to the facts. But there’s more to the story of the Uber Eats settlement than the administration suggested. In the fine print, the city noted that Uber Eats had been “mostly compliant” with the minimum-wage law and that the company had “incurred the wage debt only in weeks where workers had a delivery canceled.” During those weeks, workers reportedly did not receive the compensation that Uber Eats owed them, and some drivers were subsequently deactivated under the app’s automated rules governing canceled orders. Whether this resulted from an algorithmic error or another issue remains unclear. Uber Eats has said, however, that it was informed of the pay shortfall in August 2024, before Mamdani had even announced his mayoral candidacy, and agreed at that time to take corrective action and “pay more than the amount owed.” Mamdani trumpeted the settlement anyway. “This is the most expensive city in the United States of America,” he said, “and we want to use every tool at our disposal to improve working conditions for delivery workers.” But the mayor’s anti-gig push is raising costs for New Yorkers while failing to reflect what gig workers actually want. The minimum wage for delivery workers increased food-delivery costs in Gotham by 10 percent after it took effect. Instacart has since announced a $5.99 regulatory response fee, following the extension of the delivery minimum wage to groceries. (The minimum wage already applies to restaurant delivery) Delivery drivers saw their tips plummet by nearly 50 percent after the minimum-wage law kicked in. This aligns with results elsewhere: economic research has shown zero long-term growth in driver take-home pay in places like Seattle after that city enacted a food-delivery minimum wage. Many gig workers were effectively iced out of the market after the implementation of the new minimum. To control labor costs, companies limited the number of drivers on their platforms, with Uber Eats reporting a waiting list of 27,000 New Yorkers who sought to use the app to deliver food but could not. Gig platforms have also turned to so-called arranged scheduling, in which even already-active drivers get locked out of the app during certain periods. Why? Higher wage mandates push gig companies to operate more like traditional employers, limiting how many workers can be on the clock at one time. If too many log on, the firms risk paying for idle or underutilized labor. Arranged scheduling cuts directly against what gig workers value most: flexibility. More than 60 percent cite it as the main reason they chose this work, and few are interested in traditional, prescheduled jobs. They’re also more concerned about the lack of benefits than about wage rates. These realities underscore the wrongheadedness of Mamdani’s anti-gig campaign. A better approach would preserve flexible hours while expanding access to benefits. One promising model is a portable benefits system, in which workers and companies contribute to SEP IRA–style accounts that can be used to purchase health insurance, paid leave, or retirement plans. Numerous states — red and blue alike, from Tennessee to Maryland to Pennsylvania — have enacted portable-benefits systems for gig workers in recent years. These models preserve the self-selected scheduling flexibility that workers prize and avoid leaving tens of thousands of would-be drivers stranded on waiting lists instead of earning income. Mayor Mamdani’s desire to help gig workers may be genuine, but that goal is likelier to be achieved through policies far different from his own. *** This is republished with permission from the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. The original can be found here. Jarrett Dieterle is a legal policy fellow at the Manhattan Institute.