Meet the first CEO of the IRS: A Jamie Dimon protege facing a $5 trillion test this tax season

Frank Bisignano’s cell phone lit up, and he recognized the caller. The president was on the line. On this morning in early October, the newly confirmed Social Security commissioner was seated in his 40th floor office in Manhattan’s Tribeca that features a sweeping view of the lower East Side and on to Brooklyn, where he grew up in a blue-collar family to a father who spent 44 years as a customs agent, and a mother who ran a stevedoring outfit. “The president and my boss, [Treasury Secretary] Scott Bessent were together in the Oval Office...