In December, Congress withdrew tens of billions of dollars from a federal agency that Republicans have long said is being used as a weapon against businesses and taxpayers.
Notably, $20 billion in supplementary funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was slashed in the lawmakers’
Temporary budget package, which President Joe Biden signed into law on December 20 to support the government until March 2025.
Over the course of many budget bills, Republican legislators have attempted to recoup billions of dollars from the $80 billion.
In supplementary funds that Biden and congressional Democrats provided to the IRS to support enforcement operations and the hire of IRS officers in 2022.
According to John Kartch, vice president of communications at Americans for Tax Reform, Republicans were extremely smart to put the [$20 billion rescission in IRS budget] in the package,
