IRS CEO Bisignano Answers to House Ways and Means: BGOV Tax

Bisignano Heads to Ways & Means Panel

House Ways and Means lawmakers will have a chance to question the new IRS leader, and it might get spicy.

IRS CEO Frank Bisignano faces the committee Wednesday, in a tenure that’s spanned one of the agency’s most turbulent periods in recent memory. And he’s overseeing the IRS at the same time he serves as commissioner of the Social Security Administration.

Since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s administration, Congress has cut both annual and supplemental funding from an agency that has seen a quarter of its workforce head for the exits. That’s ...