Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

22. Department of the Treasury · Minor

Replace the subordinates to the IRS Deputy Commissioner for Operations Support

Partially done

699 22. Department of the Treasury

“The various subordinates to the Deputy Commissioner should be replaced.”

What has happened

  1. Partially done

    The chart itself, read at last, and it dates the structure rather than the people. It is one page, titled "IRS Org Chart of Top Officials", stamped "Updated 7/21/2026" in its own corner. The Commissioner box reads **Vacant**; below it Frank J. Bisignano as Chief Executive Officer; flanking, Erin Collins (National Taxpayer Advocate), Kevin Salinger (Acting Chief Counsel), David Borden (Chief, Independent Office of Appeals) and John Gibbons (Chief of Staff); and then a single bottom row of ten chief officers — Kenneth Corbin (Taxpayer Services, with Courtney Kay-Decker for Taxpayer Experience beneath him), Nicholas Perrine (Communications & Liaison), Jarod Koopman (Chief Tax Compliance Officer, and separately Chief, Criminal Investigation), Alex Kweskin (Human Capital), Todd Newnam (Financial), Kaschit Pandya (Information), Reza Rashidi (Data & Analytics), Dottie Romo (Risk and Control) and Joseph A. Ziegler (Internal Consulting). **There is no Deputy Commissioner box of any kind** — not Operations Support, not Services and Enforcement. So the answer to the Quote is that the subordinates were not replaced in post: the post above them was dissolved and they were re-parented as direct reports of a new Chief Executive Officer, most of them under new titles and with new incumbents. It stays `partial` because "replaced" is a claim about people and the record does not support it person by person.

  2. Partially done

    The layer the Quote refers to was dissolved rather than restaffed. With the creation of the IRS Chief Executive Officer on October 6, 2025 the operations-support functions — information technology, human capital, finance, procurement, facilities, privacy, data — were separated into chief-officer roles reporting into the new structure. The IRS organization page of 5 August 2026 shows that layer with new incumbents and several posts acting or vacant: Chief Information Officer Kaschit Pandya, Chief Human Capital Officer Alex Kweskin, Chief Financial Officer Todd Newnam, Chief Facilities Management and Security Service John Pekarik (acting), Chief Privacy Officer Jack Walker (acting), Chief Procurement Officer vacant. No allowlisted record documents a deliberate replacement of the individual subordinates, which is why this is not `done`.

  3. Not started

    The structure the Quote describes was still standing, and its subordinates were career civil servants rather than appointees. OPM's annual notice of Senior Executive Service positions that were career reserved during calendar year 2024 prints, in its Internal Revenue Service block, "DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, OPERATIONS SUPPORT" and "ASSOCIATE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR OPERATIONS SUPPORT", along with the layer beneath them — Chief Procurement Officer, Chief Financial Officer of the IRS, IRS Human Capital Officer, Director Operations Support, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Chief Taxpayer Experience Officer. Career-reserved means the post may only be filled by a career appointee, which is what makes "the various subordinates should be replaced" an ask about civil-service turnover rather than about appointments, and why it leaves so little public trace.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

This is a personnel ask with no dedicated public instrument. What can be shown from allowlisted sources is the structure before and after: the Deputy Commissioner for Operations Support and its reporting chain are gone from the IRS organization page, and the successor chief-officer posts carry different names.

Read-queue ticket 07, 2026-09-06 — the chart was opened, and the dated series the row hoped for does not exist. irs.gov/about-irs/irs-organization links /pub/newsroom/marketing/internet/organization-chart.pdf, a single rolling path: one file, overwritten in place, whose only dating is internal (PDF CreationDate 2026-03-13, ModDate 2026-07-21, and the printed stamp “Updated 7/21/2026”). There is no archive of prior versions — the whole 57,122-URL IRS sitemap contains exactly one organization page and the PDF lives under /pub/, which the sitemap does not enumerate at all. So no chart series can show when each subordinate post changed hands, and no other allowlisted source does either: the same sitemap grepped for newsroom slugs matching leadership|names|named|appoint|chief-|selects|announces-.*officer returns nothing for Pandya, Newnam, Kweskin, Rashidi, Romo, Ziegler, Pekarik or Walker. The two dated personnel instruments of the whole reorganization are Treasury’s 2025-10-06 announcement of the CEO and IR-2025-101 of the same day naming Jarod Koopman Acting Chief Tax Compliance Officer.

Two further things the chart shows that the HTML page does not, and vice versa. The PDF is a top officials chart and omits three posts the HTML page carries — Chief Procurement Officer (vacant), Chief Facilities Management and Security Service (John Pekarik, acting) and Chief Privacy Officer (Jack Walker, acting) — so an agent reading only the PDF would miss that the procurement seat is empty. And the PDF, unlike the page, places the Chief Executive Officer under a vacant Commissioner rather than under an Acting Commissioner.

Action
other
Object
subordinates to the IRS Deputy Commissioner for Operations Support
ID
1948