House Republicans Vow To Immediately Repeal Funding For 87,000 IRS Agents
NOVEMBER 18, 2022 • TRACEY LONGO
As Republicans take control of the House, they are vowing that one of their first initiatives will be to put President Biden’s so-called 87,000 new IRS agents’ jobs on the chopping block.

“On day one, in this House, we will repeal 87,000 IRS agents,” Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters on Thursday. “We will use the power of the purse – the size of our debt has to stop.” McCarthy won his party’s nomination to be Speaker of the House in January.

Republicans’ goal would be to roll back some or all of the $80 billion in funding over 10 years Congress passed in the Inflation Reduction Act. The IRS, which claims it has been stymied with budgetary constraints for years, has vowed to use the funds to collect some estimated $5 trillion in back taxes and to clear it’s massive unprocessed tax return backlog.

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