Posted on Oct 31, 2023
House Republicans aim to pay for Israel aid with cuts to IRS funds
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After three weeks without a speaker, the House is back in business and putting aid to Israel at the top of its to-do list.
On the same day House Speaker Mike Johnson took office last week, the Republican-led House passed a resolution declaring solidarity with Israel and pledging to give its government the funding needed to defeat Hamas.
Now they've introduced a bill aiming to do just that — but not without controversy.
The bill would send $14.3 billion to Israel without addressing funding requests for the war in Ukraine. Johnson's new bill would pay for the spending with $14.5 billion in cuts to the long-understaffed Internal Revenue Service.
After three weeks without a speaker, the House is back in business and putting aid to Israel at the top of its to-do list.
On the same day House Speaker Mike Johnson took office last week, the Republican-led House passed a resolution declaring solidarity with Israel and pledging to give its government the funding needed to defeat Hamas.
Now they've introduced a bill aiming to do just that — but not without controversy.
The bill would send $14.3 billion to Israel without addressing funding requests for the war in Ukraine. Johnson's new bill would pay for the spending with $14.5 billion in cuts to the long-understaffed Internal Revenue Service.
House Republicans aim to pay for Israel aid with cuts to IRS funds
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The IRS wasn't "plussed up and armed."
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-irs-armed/fact-check-the-irs-is-not-hiring-thousands-of-armed-agents-job-ads-show-opening-for-specialized-unit-idUSL1N2ZT296
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/02/no-the-irs-still-isnt-hiring-an-army-of-armed-auditors.html
"What’s also clear to Smith is that conversations over an “army” of new IRS agents amounts to little more than political hand-wringing. “We have to dispel the notion that anybody is showing up at your door with weapons drawn,” he says.
An oft-quoted figure when it comes to this wave of IRS funding — 87,000 new agents — doesn’t come from the Inflation Reduction Act at all. Rather, it’s an estimate from a 2021 Treasury Department report for how the IRS could “rebuild” and “revitalize” the agency over the next decade in the wake of an aging staff that’s set to undergo a wave of retirements."
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-irs-special-agent-gun [login to see] 40
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-irs-armed/fact-check-the-irs-is-not-hiring-thousands-of-armed-agents-job-ads-show-opening-for-specialized-unit-idUSL1N2ZT296
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/02/no-the-irs-still-isnt-hiring-an-army-of-armed-auditors.html
"What’s also clear to Smith is that conversations over an “army” of new IRS agents amounts to little more than political hand-wringing. “We have to dispel the notion that anybody is showing up at your door with weapons drawn,” he says.
An oft-quoted figure when it comes to this wave of IRS funding — 87,000 new agents — doesn’t come from the Inflation Reduction Act at all. Rather, it’s an estimate from a 2021 Treasury Department report for how the IRS could “rebuild” and “revitalize” the agency over the next decade in the wake of an aging staff that’s set to undergo a wave of retirements."
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-irs-special-agent-gun [login to see] 40
Fact Check-The IRS is not hiring thousands of armed agents, job ads show opening for specialized...
Social media users are claiming that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is hiring 87,000 new armed IRS agents. This claim is false. The job listing being shared is for IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agents, and currently only about 2,100 special agents carry firearms...
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Good...the IRS shouldn't have been plussed up and armed like it has been!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel imagine that...
..."Now they've introduced a bill aiming to do just that — but not without controversy.
The bill would send $14.3 billion to Israel without addressing funding requests for the war in Ukraine. Johnson's new bill would pay for the spending with $14.5 billion in cuts to the long-understaffed Internal Revenue Service.
Senate Democrats and the White House have called the bill a nonstarter. The bill also puts House Republicans at odds with many GOP Senators, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Democrats oppose the bill on two fronts. They say the Ukraine money cannot be separated from Israel and they say emergency funding of this type is not usually offset with cuts. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday that "politicizing our national security interests is a nonstarter."
"Demanding offsets for meeting core national security needs of the United States — like supporting Israel and defending Ukraine from atrocities and Russian imperialism — would be a break with the normal, bipartisan process and could have devastating implications for our safety and alliances in the years ahead," she added."...
..."Now they've introduced a bill aiming to do just that — but not without controversy.
The bill would send $14.3 billion to Israel without addressing funding requests for the war in Ukraine. Johnson's new bill would pay for the spending with $14.5 billion in cuts to the long-understaffed Internal Revenue Service.
Senate Democrats and the White House have called the bill a nonstarter. The bill also puts House Republicans at odds with many GOP Senators, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Democrats oppose the bill on two fronts. They say the Ukraine money cannot be separated from Israel and they say emergency funding of this type is not usually offset with cuts. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday that "politicizing our national security interests is a nonstarter."
"Demanding offsets for meeting core national security needs of the United States — like supporting Israel and defending Ukraine from atrocities and Russian imperialism — would be a break with the normal, bipartisan process and could have devastating implications for our safety and alliances in the years ahead," she added."...
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