Jude Jaffe-Block
speaker
125 appearances
14 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Jun
Jude Jaffe-Block’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Last August, the IRS shared the addresses of 47,000 non-citizens with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
But a federal judge in D.C.
found last year that data exchange was unlawful.
Now, a second federal judge, this one in Boston, has blocked ICE and the Department of Homeland Security from inspecting or using that data and has paused the data sharing agreement while the case goes forward.
The judge cited taxpayer privacy laws and also raised concerns about immigration agents misidentifying people and wrongfully arresting them at their homes.
A DHS spokesperson told NPR the agency disagreed with the ruling and said the government is, quote, sharing information across the federal government to solve problems.
Jude Jaffeblock, NPR News.
The enhanced tax credits are slated to expire at the end of the year.
And when they do, the out-of-pocket costs for millions of Americans who buy their insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplace will skyrocket.
House Speaker Mike Johnson says the GOP proposal instead tackles, quote, the real drivers of health care costs.
It will allow small businesses to band together to buy health insurance plans.
It also attempts to lower drug costs by imposing new requirements on pharmacy benefit managers.
A Democratic bill to extend the tax credits for three years failed in the Senate, as did a Republican proposal.
Members of Congress are running out of time to address health care costs before the holiday recess at the end of the week.
Jude Jaffeblock, NPR News.
He now says it's under review.
Are you ordering the secretary to release that full video?
The states pointed out a federal judge already issued a preliminary injunction in October which blocks USDA from withholding funding from states that don't share the data.
USDA has asked for items such as SNAP recipients' names, home addresses, birthdates, social security numbers, income information, and immigration status.
The states say they object to the federal government collecting Americans' personal data without a clear need for it and cited legal and data security concerns.
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