Information technology will lose 23% of its workforce, while the management and analysis division is set to shed 28% of its staff.
That included about 4,600 approved under the initial January buyout offer and 17,000 approved for voluntary early retirement. Thousands more from other types of departures.
Alex Muresianu, senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation, told The Washington Times that staffing cuts aren’t always a problem. However, he said they can be a problem when coupled with new roles for the IRS, such as during the pandemic emergency, and could come into play as the agency implements changes from Mr. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
[There are no new roles we need since Joe Biden.]
“The confluence of low staffing levels and new policies is a messy mix,” he said. “I think that is a potential challenge in the coming tax season.”
I don’t think he’s right. Can we try for 50% if we cut out equity and DEI rules?
The majority of federal workers pushed out head to academia, local government, or become self-employed. pic.twitter.com/LFLehNec79
— Revelio Labs (@RevelioLabs) July 23, 2025
The IRS went from about 65,000 employees in the 70’s with a population of 215 million (0.0302%), to ~100,000 in 2020 with a population of 331 million (0.0302%). So as computers became the central processing mechanism for the IRS to do what they do, they didn’t really change the workforce total at all over 50 years, all things being equal.… Read more »
I am guessing IRS could cut another 26K and still not suffer, although they might have to wake up a few hundred that spend their afternoons sleeping in the men’s room stalls.
What about the 81K Poopy-pants hired?
…and armed them too boot…and the left, and the grovelling legacy media, have the audacity to call Trump a dictator…