Congress rescinded tens of billions of dollars from a government agency in December that Republicans have long accused of being weaponized against taxpayers and corporations.
Lawmakers’ stopgap spending bill, signed into law by President Joe Biden on Dec. 20 to fund the government through March 2025, notably cut $20 billion in supplemental funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Republican lawmakers opposed Biden and congressional Democrats doling out $80 billion in supplemental funding to the IRS to bolster enforcement actions and the hiring of IRS agents in 2022, and have worked to claw back billions of this funding over the course of several spending bills.
WATCH: Billy Long, who Trump has just picked to lead the IRS, trolled Congress in 2011 by auctioning off the national debt. pic.twitter.com/nBubFFggd2
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) December 4, 2024
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