# Senators Scrutinize Treasury ID.me Use

Treasury has begun requiring ID.me for TreasuryDirect access, while Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren are urging Treasury and the IRS to reconsider the service and delay the transition until after the 2027 tax-filing deadline. The scrutiny also concerns the IRS’s ID.me award worth more than **$1 billion** and the federal use of Login.gov. Treasury and IRS responses are due **November 9, 2026 (10 days away)**; the agencies’ responses could affect implementation timing and future identity-verification procurement decisions.

- Identity-verification contractors and agency acquisition teams should evaluate how privacy, user access, oversight, and vendor-dependence terms are addressed in current and future procurements.
- The reported claim that ID.me outperforms Login.gov should be assessed against comparative performance evidence rather than treated as established procurement fact.
- The signals identify no open solicitation. Companies working in identity verification can use the scrutiny to review how their solutions document performance and address government safeguards.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Industries:** Information Technology
**Topics:** Cybersecurity, Digital Infrastructure
**Published:** October 29, 2026

### Government Entities
- U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury)
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- United States Senate Committee on Finance (Senate Finance Committee)
- United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate Banking Committee)
- General Services Administration (GSA)

### Vendors
- ID.me (Awardee)

### Sources
- [Treasury, IRS use of third-party ID verification under fire from top Senate Finance, Banking Dems | FedScoop](https://fedscoop.com/treasury-direct-irs-id-me-login-gov) - FedScoop
- [Wyden, Warren seek answers about IRS and Treasury using third-party identification verification](https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1xiv42e/wyden_warren_seek_answers_about_irs_and_treasury) - reddit-fednews