The House of Representatives fulfilled their first promise last night. They voted to rescind more than $70 billion in funding to the Internal Revenue Service. It will prevent the agency from hiring tens of thousands of new agents and conducting new audits on Americans.
The Democrat plan is to fund 87,000 (87K) new IRS agents and double the size of one of our most feared agencies.
The people who get audited the most are the middle class and Donald Trump. That is who these 87K agents will pursue like a hit mob. They like to go after their political enemies. What they won’t audit are the blank checks to Ukraine.
The Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act would dramatically increase the agency’s enforcement abilities. They’re already armed.
“Our first bill will repeal funding for 87,000 new IRS agents because the government should be here to help you, not go after you,” declared newly minted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy upon taking the gavel early Saturday morning and ushering in a new session under Republican control.
The bill — dubbed the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act and sponsored by Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., and Rep. Michelle Steel, R-Calif. — passed the House of Representatives, 221-210.
It takes away the funding for the IRS in the Inflation Reduction Act passed last year. Only it won’t pass the Senate, and Joe Biden won’t sign it. Americans voted for this.
The bill rescinds any funding that could be used to conduct new audits on Americans and funding that would double the agency’s current size with 87K agents.
The growth of big government, especially the IRS, must be stopped. Unfortunately, Americans voted for more Big Government to take away their freedoms.
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I get a little worried about these sorts of bills. Yes, sure, the passing of such a one by the Republicans does indeed expose the malevolent resolve of the Left … but we already knew about that. How else could the thing have gone through last year, in the first place?
Prior to their actually attaining majorities in both chambers of Congress in 2017, the House and Senate Republicans repeatedly introduced bills to repeal Obamacare. But when they finally had the votes to PASS the repeal, and a Trump in the White House to sign the bill … ? Nothing. Crickets.
So … forgive me if I’m a bit skeptical about all these “lame duck” plans to pass go-nowhere bills, on the part of the McCarthy House.
As GuvGeek notes below, the proof will be in the pudding.
While we may have had majorities in both houses in 2017, it takes a majority of 60 seats in the Senate to keep the dems from filibustering any meaningful legislation. Plus, we can’t forget the RINOs like Ryan who fought against the people’s wishes.
The remedy for the Senate and White House not supporting this should be ZERO funding for the IRS in October!