Wyden Rips Treasury Report Ending Direct File

Wyden Rips Treasury Report Ending Direct File

Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the Trump administration's report announcing the end of the Direct File program, which gave taxpayers a free online option for filing their taxes directly with the IRS:

"If an opportunity presents itself to stick it to working people and drive up their costs for the benefit of giant corporations, you can count on the Trump administration to seize it. Trump and Bessent had already gutted the team that ran the Direct File program, so the outcome of this study was predetermined and the report itself is a sham. I wrote the bill that created Direct File because the existing free options were insufficient and the big tax prep companies had been caught red-handed using deceptive practices to scam taxpayers into overpaying. The lesson is, the Trump administration is a threat to any public service that saves Americans time, hassle and money."

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