The IRS fired 6,700 employees on Thursday, a government official told NewsNation, the sister television network of The Hill.
The employees were designated as probationary, meaning they were working for the agency on a trial basis prior to becoming full staff members.
More than 5,000 of the fired staff members were auditors and collection staff dealing with tax compliance issues, the official told NewsNation.
Kevin Hassett, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), told reporters at the White House on Thursday that the decision was motivated by government efficiency concerns.
Republicans were still able to claw back a quarter of the IRA funds through appropriations fights over the course of 2023 and 2024.
They also managed to freeze an additional $20.2 billion of the funding boost allotted specifically for increased audits, effectively torpedoing Democrats’ goal of increasing enforcement on the wealthy and corporations.
The 5,000 fired compliance staff lines up closely with the number of new auditors the agency had hired with the IRA money for increased enforcement.
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Trump and Elon have fired more government workers than the total number of tech workers have been laid off according to layoffs.fyi
Party of fiscal responsibility, law, and order.
>They also managed to freeze an additional $20.2 billion of the funding boost allotted specifically for increased audits, effectively torpedoing Democrats’ goal of increasing enforcement on the wealthy and corporations.
People that voted for trump will still bitch and moan about the wealth and corporations taking advantage of the system lol
What’s the statute of limitations on tax fraud