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Nineteen members of Congress published a letter criticizing Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin for omitting Hamas from the list of named terrorist groups whose financing Qatar has agreed to combat.

The number of dual American and foreign nationals found skirting United States sanctions law to conduct business in Iran is growing, raising questions regarding how many more such cases exist and how the Trump administration will work toward limiting their access to Iran.

Less than 24 hours after the U.S. Department of Treasury sanctioned Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif claimed, “Iranians–boys, girls, men, women–are ALL IRGC.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he has authorized the U.S. Department of Treasury to sanction Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization under terrorism Executive Order 13224; a move the leader of the free world said was “long overdue.”

At a White House news conference on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said military strikes are not the preferred solution for North Korea but warned that the military option will be “devastating” if he feels compelled to authorize it.

The Inspector General for Tax Administration has discovered that under Commissioner John Koskinen, the Internal Revenue Service re-hired 212 employees it had previously fired for offenses including tax evasion, theft, and abuse of taxpayer data.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury Department announced a new round of sanctions against Chinese and Russian individuals and corporate entities for supporting North Korea’s nuclear bomb and missile programs.

TEL AVIV – Iran is constructing a weapons factory for long-range rockets in northwest Syria, Israeli media reported Tuesday.

A court ordered release of thousands of formerly confidential documents has revealed the truth about the government seizing GSE profits.

Not long after announcing that it would certify Iran’s ongoing compliance with the JCPOA or “nuclear deal,” the Trump administration announced new sanctions against Iran and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, for what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin described as “malign activity.”

Special interest groups have been falsely claiming for several months that the Obama administration was diverting the profits of the mortgage-finance giants to providing funding for portions of Obamacare.

President Donald Trump previewed a major announcement on tax reform next week, as he signed a series of executive orders and spoke to reporters at the Treasury Department

Earlier this week, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson asked a guest on his show if it were true that the United States government has been “looting” Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The New York Times (NYT) had no qualms allowing the vice-president of Venezuela to blast the President Donald Trump’s administration in a full-page open letter published after the U.S. Treasury designated him a drug trafficking kingpin.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is urging Congress to raise the U.S. debt ceiling “at the first opportunity.”

Guatemalan Raúl Arturo Contreras, known as “dead” or “skeleton” in his country’s slang, will soon be a free man after serving 18 months and paying a $100 fine for being part of cocaine trafficking network linked to Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah.

The United States Department of Treasury has designated Venezuela’s vice president, Tareck el Aissami, a “Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker” for engaging in drug deals throughout the Western Hemisphere. Multiple reports in the past decade have tied El Aissami to groups as varied as the Mexican Zetas cartel and Hezbollah.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch has formally refused to answer questions from Congress about the Obama Administration’s huge cash payments to Iran. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) described Lynch’s response as “unacceptable,” and said she has chosen to “essentially plead the Fifth.”

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee told Breitbart News that he is committed to abolish permanently the federal tax on the property of the deceased, or the ‘Death Tax.’

A government watchdog said Thursday that one of the programs of Obamacare under the Obama administration was making illegal payments to its insurers instead of the U.S. Treasury.

NEW YORK — The Treasury Department on Saturday confirmed that it wire transferred at least two separate payments to Iran in the last 14 months.

A Republican Louisiana congressman filed a privileged motion Tuesday that calls for a vote on the House floor on whether to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen for High Crimes and Misdemeanors in the next two legislative days. “The American people

On Tuesday, the Obama administration finally admitted something its critics had long suspected: The entire $1.7 billion tribute paid to Iran was tendered in cash — not just the initial $400 million infamously shipped to the Iranians in a cargo plane — at the same moment four American hostages were released.

The White House is still bizarrely obsessed with claiming the $400-million ransom paid to Iran for the release of American hostages was not a ransom, but the State Department has a bigger problem: It claims to have lost track of the other $1.3 billion paid to Iran as part of Barack Obama’s nuclear deal.

Legendary standup comic Jackie Mason delivered his hilarious take on President Obama’s claim that $400 million in pallets of foreign currency flown to Iran aboard an unmarked jetliner the same day five American hostages were released from Iranian custody did not amount to ransom.

Foreign banks have sold U.S. debt at a record pace throughout 2016, with June the third consecutive month for U.S. Treasury bond sales.

TEL AVIV – U.S. officials and others briefed on the operation have provided new details about the transfer of $400 million in cash to Tehran earlier this year, depicting what the Wall Street Journal has described as a “tightly scripted

After refusing to divulge how the payment was transferred, the State Department has now refused to answer repeated requests about when it sent to Iran a sum of $1.3 billion, which was part of the same settlement for which the Obama administration delivered $400 million in pallets of foreign currency flown aboard an unmarked jetliner in January. The cash was flown in the same day five American hostages were released from Iranian custody.

Questions continue to linger about the Obama administration’s decision to deliver $400 million in pallets of foreign currency flown to Iran aboard an unmarked jetliner the same day five American hostages were released from Iranian custody.

Iran’s Lebanese terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, finds itself in dire financial straits after years of sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies, a top U.S. Department of Treasury official told lawmakers this week.

TEL AVIV – “Say what??? I just hope they keep buying our debt!” That was Hillary Clinton’s email response to an article forwarded to her private blackberry address by a top aide quoting Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner accusing China of

NASHVILLE, Tennessee–The attorney for Deana Inman, the alleged victim of IRS revenue agent Samuel Garza, who was indicted in October on two felony counts of sexual battery, has filed a $1 million injury claim on her behalf against the United States Department of the Treasury.

Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC), chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, and 22 other Republicans wrote a letter opposing sanctions relief by the Obama administration for a Chinese corporation accused of providing spy gear to Iran.

CHICAGO (AP) — Muhammad Salah, a suburban Chicago man who fought off charges he supported Hamas, has died. He was 62.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the United Nations in New York on Friday to discuss more sanctions relief for Iran, which has complained the benefits promised in President Obama’s nuclear deal are arriving too slowly.

Opinions on the Harriet Tubman $20 bill seem to be running generally positive, but there are some objections, beginning with a prominent self-professed fan of the portrait currently adorning the twenty, Donald Trump. “Andrew Jackson had a great history and I