Defund the IRS: the big Republican promise for midterms

Several congressional Republicans made it a major goal to reverse the $80 billion in additional funding for the IRS (Internal Revenue Service ) included in the Biden Administration's Inflation Reduction Act.

The Republican Party warned that the IRS expansion will attack the middle classes. One of the first politicians to raise his voice on the matter was Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who stated in September that "every single Republicans should commit to not funding Biden's army of IRS agents."

Since then, the GOP's plan while facing midterms has included a promise to take this extra money away from IRS funding. In this regard, Republican House candidate Anna Paulina Luna (FL) set a countdown to defund the 87,000 new agents hired by the IRS to police citizens' tax affairs.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was responsible for making this defunding plan one of the highest priorities among House Republicans a few weeks ago:

Legislature to defund the IRS

In this regard, several Republican members of Congress took action to rescind this increase in IRS funding. Congressmen Adrian Smith (Nebraska) and Michelle Steel (California) recently introduced a bill to rescind those funds intended to "squeeze more revenue out of American taxpayers."

"It’s clear the IRS has long lost touch with its mission: to serve taxpayers," said Rep. Smith.

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The bill won't remove funding to improve IRS customer service and information technology systems.