New GOP House Votes To Repeal Funding for Biden’s 87,000 New IRS Agents

Every Democrat voted no. Tells you all you need to know.

In 2022, The IRS Went After the Very Poorest Taxpayers

🚨 BREAKING → The House just voted to repeal funding for Biden’s 87,000 new IRS agents.

Every Democrat voted no. Tells you all you need to know.

— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) January 10, 2023

House passes bill nixing $72 billion in funding for 87,000 new IRS agents

By Victor Nava, NY Post, January 9, 2023:

In one of the new Republican House majority’s first legislative moves on Monday, the body passed a bill rescinding $72 billion in spending on 87,000 new IRS agents.

House Resolution 23, or the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act, passed the lower chamber in a 221 to 210 vote along party lines.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced during his first address as speaker early Saturday morning that the funding for new Internal Revenue Service agents provided under the Inflation Reduction Act enacted last year would be one of the first bills the new Congress takes up.

“This was our very first act of the new Congress, because government should work for you, not against you,” McCarthy wrote on Twitter. “Promises made. Promises kept.”

The legislation was sponsored by Rep. Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) and Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.). It now heads to the Democratic-controlled Senate, where it does not appear to have the votes to pass.

The bill specifies that the IRS only spend new money on customer service and IT improvements, rather than hiring agents, auditors, and other staff members — whom Republicans claim will target low- and middle-class Americans rather than wealthy individuals and corporations.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced when he was elected that one of the first actions of the new Congress would be to cancel the IRS funding.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali.), speaker emeritus of the House, called the vote on Monday “shameful, but not surprising.”

“It is shameful, but not surprising, that House Republicans’ first order of business in this Congress is to protect corporate America and ultra-wealthy individuals who are illegally avoiding taxes,” a statement issued by Pelosi after the vote read.

“Last summer, Democrats proudly enacted the Inflation Reduction Act: a strong step toward tax fairness that improved taxpayer services for families and bolstered resources to ensure the wealthiest few and greediest corporations will pay what they owe. Now, Republicans want to rip away these resources, which will drive up the deficit and let wealthy tax cheats off the hook,” she added, deriding the new House majority as the “MAGA Majority in the House.”

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BadNewsRDems

1 year ago

LET’S DEFUND EVERYTHING BIDEN HAS DONE!

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THX 1138

1 year ago

If you like your earnings, you can keep your earnings?

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fir1

1 year ago

Reply to  THX 1138

All they have to do to avoid ALL OF THIS NONSENSE – Is institute a flat 10% income tax .. No fuss no freaking muss.Simple do your taxes on a postcard sized form you make 10 bucks pay a buck make a million pay a 100 k simple – but the the party of rats don’t want simple or fair …

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Snowedin

1 year ago

The IRS needs to be completely defunded and disbanded. The Capital Gains Tax and Inheritance Tax need to go away as well.

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Robert Laity

1 year ago

WHERE in the Constitution is it delineated that the office of “Speaker Emeritus of the House” exists? Answer: NO WHERE!!! Pelosi is no more and no less than the Representative from the 11th Congressional District, California. Period!!!

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Laddyboy

1 year ago

Reply to  Robert Laity

WRONG!!! Nasty Nancy uses a broom to travel!!!

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Laddyboy

1 year ago

DOES ANYONE HAVE A BUCKET OF WATER?!?!?

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Melissa

1 year ago

This is just grandstanding. What is the point if the Senate wont pass it and the occupant of the Oval Office wont sign it?
Republicans, both politicians and voters, are a feckless bunch, whose most remarkable trait is the craven compulsion to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

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jbaviera

1 year ago

Reply to  Melissa

It’s called “doing what you said you’d do”! Yes, will go no nowhere in the Senate, but the House DID something!

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fir1

1 year ago

Reply to  jbaviera

True – so we still end up with 87,000 more clowns whose job it is to try to find new ways to squeeze/steal every penny out of the rest of us. Only going after people that make more than 400k what a crock of shi-. They dont need that many agents/criminals to do that.What has creepy sleepy and his ‘ squeeze ‘ done to avoid paying THEIR FAIR SHARE of taxes – Oh yeah thats all ” legal ” Institute an across the board 10% flat tax.No excuses no angles figured out by fancy tax lawyers. EVERYONE PAYS 10%

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