Biden Shelled Out $80,000,000,000 For IRS Enforcement. Congress Has Already Revoked Half Of It.
Congress rescinded tens of billions of dollars from a government agency in December that Republicans have long accused of being weaponized against taxpayers and corporations.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.
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“I think it was very wise of Republicans to include that [$20 billion rescission in IRS funding] in the package,” John Kartch, vice president of communications at Americans for Tax Reform, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “This is 20 billion we should never spend. By kicking it out, it means the Trump administration is never going to spend it.”
The rescission in IRS funding follows prior action from lawmakers in June 2023 and May to claw back parts of the $80 billion in supplemental funding shelled out to the IRS under Biden and Democratic lawmakers’ 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
When Congress passes a stopgap funding bill, known as a continuing resolution (CR), existing policy from the previous fiscal year is written into the CR barring changes to the text from lawmakers. (Read more from “Biden Shelled Out $80,000,000,000 For IRS Enforcement. Congress Has Already Revoked Half Of It.” HERE)
