Chris Cioffi

The son of Sen. Jim Justice is fighting a $21.4 million dollar tax bill, alleging the IRS wrongly repealed refunds stemming from coal mining losses and amended returns claimed on several of the family’s business entities. buff.ly/83JU0hO

NEW: A House Ways and Means subcommittee scheduled a field hearing on Tuesday, April 14, in Sarasota, Florida, according to three sources familiar with the panel’s plans. buff.ly/u40xRsu

SCOOP: Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kan.) is introducing legislation that would repeal the adjusted taxable income limitation that excludes some global income of US companies. The bill has about a dozen GOP cosponsors. buff.ly/xf1GnKl

ICYMI: A bill aimed at strengthening the IRS whistleblower program sailed through Wednesday’s House Ways and Means Committee markup with no opposition. buff.ly/5vqntqQ

End of a major era in NC politics

GOP Sen. Rick Scott is the latest public figure to sue Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. for the recovery of inflicted damages caused by the company and its former IRS contractor who leaked thousands of private tax returns to the New York Times and ProPublica. buff.ly/g046tFI

Sen. John Kennedy stands in front of a patriotic floor chart while discussing the SAVE Act voting bill being considered on the Senate floor.

Last year in D.C., rejected tags ranged from “DEI” and “ELONSUX” to “THXDOGE” and “SH1TBOX.”

A blow-up this week over a potential negotiating session to end the partial government shutdown indicates the lack of movement toward resolving the impasse. @Zachary_Cohen article was quoted on the floor and he breaks down what's going on in the Senate: bit.ly/4cKL9FJ

Middle-class tax cuts, paid for with millionaire taxes, should be part of future Dems' tax plans, Sen. Van Hollen says. It's representative of ideas irking progressives questioning if new revenue should instead be used for easing poverty or housing costs. buff.ly/vQbgSMp

Van Hollen emphasized that hiking taxes on millionaires is a central part of the affordability push Democrats are on, perhaps a sign that criticism of his proposal has resonated. From @ReporterCioffi news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-repo…

@RichardRubinDC @ktullymcmanus @marthagimbel OB3 — another popular nomenclature I’ve heard ‘round these parts.

@ktullymcmanus @marthagimbel wait I didn't even hear that? no.

Was wondering whether it was worth coming to this debt hearing but then @marthagimbel just did an analogy where the US as a borrower is the boyfriend at the beginning of the Hallmark movie and I'm not going to do it justice and someone needs to find and post the clip.

Mere weeks into the appropriations beat, @Zachary_Cohen is already seeing his @BGOV stories read on the floor by Senate Majority Leader John Thune.

From the Trump resort in Doral, Fla., @kentran_ and I wrote about House Republicans' early efforts to coalesce around a second party-line reconciliation bill for @bgov: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

The White House is “ignoring or evading” requirements for Senate-confirmed leadership at the IRS, Senate Democrats wrote in a new letter. buff.ly/o6hurZ7

Congress should bolster its in-house think tank’s access to artificial intelligence that helps prepare briefings for lawmakers and their staff, leadership of the Capitol’s research arm said. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

Nice exclusive from @victoriaregisk: Lawmakers are pressuring RFK Jr. to fill advisory council roles that expire this year. Without filling them, there could be disruptions in NIH funding. @BGOV news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberg-gove…

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LDA news: Excited to lead my first #NICAR26 session today on LobbyR. It’s an R package I developed that turns federal lobbying disclosures into structured data. It can be cleaner than using the site! Check it out on CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=lobbyR schedules.ire.org/nicar-2026/#/s…

We're hiring a financial services Capitol Hill reporter to join the tax, accounting and policy team here at Bloomberg @tax! Details on how to apply: bloomberg.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Bloomber…