The head of the Internal Revenue Service is quitting. She's resigning because she refuses to turn over IRS data to the Department of Homeland Security as part of an operation to target illegal immigrants using the system. That's apparently a bridge too far. What wasn't a bridge too far was everything preceding this event.

According to reports, "acting IRS commissioner, Melanie Krause, has indicated she will participate in the Trump administration's deferred resignation program in order to step down from her post."

Additionally, "Two sources told the publication that Krause was furious about being bypassed over the agreement, and simultaneously disagrees with the direction the administration is trying to steer the agency in. 'She no longer feels like she's in a position where she can impact the decision-making that's happening,' the source said. 'And [she believes] that some of the decisions that are being made now are things the IRS can never recover from.'"

Trump's cabinet officials signed the deal in question. "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem allegedly went over the top of Krause to sign a deal which would allow immigration authorities the access they sought."

The first part wrong with this story is that any acting commissioner of any agency believes they have a say in public policy. It doesn't matter what administration, party, or cause you're supporting. If you're a public employee, you're subservient to all public officials. You do not drive public policy of any kind - or rather, you shouldn't.

We have the political process for a reason. Administrative agency employees don't face any public pressure from the political process, which we use to drive transparency and accountability into the system. If you're one of these employees, your job is to do what you're told.

It's also incredibly insulting for the IRS of all agencies to complain about privacy. When a former IRS contractor was found guilty of a single count of leaking the tax records of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and others, the sentencing was a joke. He only got five years in jail.

At the time, the IRS only admitted that the contractor had leaked 70,000 individual records. However, when Trump got into the White House and the IRS went before Congress, suddenly, they admitted that the initial number was wrong. In actuality, the former contractor had released the tax records of 405,000 Americans.

Remember, he was only sentenced to five years in jail for one count of wrongdoing. That should have been a much harsher jail sentence. But that's Biden's Department of Justice for you.

Or let's look at another case: the IRS whistleblowers who raised alarms over how investigations into Hunter Biden were going. After they waved red flags that the IRS and DOJ were giving the Biden family sweetheart deals, the IRS cracked down... on the whistleblowers.

Independent government watchdog agencies found that "IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler faced illegal gag orders and workplace retaliation for testifying before Congress multiple times, leveling serious allegations of misconduct against the officials tasked with handling the Hunter Biden case."

Or you could look at how Biden flexed his power to have tech companies and conservatives kicked out of the banking system. We could go back even further and detail how Obama's IRS targeted conservative groups. 

The point is that these errors keep happening in the same direction. Now, when the IRS is claiming some level of desire to protect the tax filings of illegal immigrants, they throw up barriers and start resigning. 

The resignations should have happened years ago. The entire agency, from top to bottom, should have been cleaned out from the litany of failures and mass disasters it inflicted upon Americans. But suddenly, they see Donald Trump and gain a newfound respect for privacy. 

It is mindblowing that IRS officials are jumping through more hoops and acting more outraged at the Department of Homeland Security seeking to use those records to deport illegal aliens than any previous disaster. There's more outrage for illegal immigrants than the tax records of actual Americans. 

The left will undoubtedly respond, "This is just whataboutism. We should protect all tax records." That's fine. That's a great rule. It's not the rule they've employed at any point in several decades. The IRS rules so far have been: tax records are private unless you're a Republican. 

If Republicans or anyone on the right is getting their records leaked out of pure spite, culling those same records to find illegal aliens is fine. Democrats aren't protecting the rule of law. They're protecting the way things have been while weaponizing one of the few necessary agencies in government.