Thursday, August 11, 2022

WALL STREET JOE BIDEN'S I.R.S. - PROTECT TECH BILLIONAIRE TAX EVADERS LIKE JEFF BEZOS, AND GO AFTER MIDDLE AMERICA - IRS Is Hiring Gun-Toting Agents 'Willing to Use Deadly Force'

GAMER LAWYERS JOE BIDEN AND HUNTER BIDEN ARE TWO OF THE BIGGEST TAX EVADERS IN AMERICA. AFTER ALL, YOU CAN'T DECLARE BRIBES FROM FOREIGN DICTATORS WITHOUT CONFESSING THAT YOU ARE A TRAITOR!

Most of the media have never given a damn about the Clinton (LAWYER), Obama (LAWYER) or Biden (LAWYER) corruption, which is massive.                                                                             JACK HELLNER


Laura Ingraham: President Xi is an evil dictator....but joe loves all

dictators, particularly those who are generous to crackhead hunter!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWAU-wFqhkQ


THE ENTIRE BIDEN FAMILY IN BED WITH RED CHINA

Jesse Watters: Joe Biden just proved he's compromised


New details further link Hunter Biden to China’s payroll

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgVOirLNWpw


The author of Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win, explained, “This started out as a Hunter Biden story and is now with Joe Biden story. He is at the center. He is the planet which the moons in the family Hunter Biden and James Biden revolve.”

From Schweizer’s NY Post article:

For those wondering why Joe Biden is soft on China, consider this never-before-reported  revelation: The Biden family has done five deals in China totaling some $31 million arranged by individuals with direct ties to Chinese intelligence — some reaching the very top of China’s spy agency.


Joe Biden collects $400,000 a year in salary as president.  According to the New York Post, Biden and his family have collected $31 million from China.  Jesus said we cannot serve two masters.  If Biden has collected $31 million from China, that raises the question: what do the Chinese want in return?  Does that $31 million make China his biggest concern?  Could it be that his primary job is serving the interests of China, while his role as president is a moonlighting gig?


 DO A SEARCH FOR WAR PROFITEER DIANNE FEINSTEIN AND RED CHINA!

            BIDEN KLEPTOCRACY

RIDING THE DRAGON: The Bidens' Chinese Secrets (Full Documentary)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRmlcEBAiIs   

           THE BIDEN KLEPTOCRACY

American people deserve to know what China was up to with Joe Biden, especially when Beijing had already shelled out millions of dollars to Biden family members — including millions in set-asides for “the big guy.” What else is on that infamous Hunter Biden laptop? The conflicted Biden Justice Department cannot be trusted to engage in any meaningful oversight on this issue. We need a special counsel now.   

The Biden family's corruption 'spans the globe': Schweizer



Biden, the frontrunner among 2020 Democrats, often touts his middle-class bonafides on the campaign trail. Although Biden did not become a multi-millionaire until he left the White House in 2017, the same cannot be said of his family. In fact, several members of the Biden clan became immensely wealthy over the span of the former vice president’s 40-year political career. HARIS ALIC

Watters: The Five (CRIME) Families of the Democrat Party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBpvvHethg0 


IRS Is Hiring Gun-Toting Agents 'Willing to Use Deadly Force'

By Susan Jones | August 11, 2022 | 5:18am EDT

  

An agent from the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division. (Photo by Gregg Felsen/Getty Images)
An agent from the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division. (Photo by Gregg Felsen/Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) - As Democrats defend their plan to hire 87,000 additional IRS agents, the Internal Revenue Service already is trying to hire special agents who are "legally allowed to carry a firearm" and are willing to do so; are "willing to use deadly force, if necessary," and are "willing and able to participate in arrests, execution of search warrants, and other dangerous assignments."

"Click here to apply today!" says the message on "IRS Careers" webpage.

"The IRS is making one of the greatest power grabs I have ever seen in governmental history with 87,000 new agents," said Fox Business host Larry Kudlow, who served as the Director of the National Economic Council during the Trump Administration from 2018 to 2021.

Kudlow told Fox News's Laura Ingraham Wednesday night the burden of IRS audits "will fall on people making under $200,000 a year, not rich people, as Chuck Schumer said today."

"Now, Laura, talk about a power grab from the deep state. Did you see this story? It's on the Fox Business website. They're advertising job postings on the Internet, okay, legally allowed to carry a firearm. Major duties include carrying a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary, and be willing and able to participate in arrests, execution of search warrants and other dangerous assignments."

"These are the IRS agents. They're supposed to be tax accountants looking at your tax returns. And that's bad enough. These guys, deadly force. I love this.

"You've got to look at this story and report on it. It just goes to show you, more lies. More fraud. The IRS is not going after tax cheats, they're going after middle-income people and small businesses. This is insanity."

Democrats insist that the 87,000 new IRS agents authorized by the Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act will go after wealthy tax cheats, not lower- and middle-class taxpayers.

White House Economic Adviser Jared Bernstein told Fox News on Wednesday that the "long-term defunding of the IRS" has facilitated "tax evasion by wealthy evaders."

Citing the IRS Commissioner, Bernstein said, "IRS resources will not add to audits for households under $400,000, and those same households will not see one penny increase in their taxes based on proposals in the Inflation Reduction Act."

Other analysts disagree, however.

"Now I think what's gotten confused in some of this discussion is that finally reversing the long-term defunding, which is really, in my view, a shadow tax cut for wealthy tax evaders, will not increase audits one iota, according to the commissioner, for families under $400,000, which is about 98 or 99 percent of taxpayers," Bernstein said.

"So, let's be very clear. This is about making sure the top one percent pay the taxes that they owe. I don't think too many people hearing my voice -- would object to that."

Bernstein also drew a distinction between "tax avoidance" and "tax evasion."

"Tax avoidance, we might not like it, but it's not illegal. It is, as you say, between the lines. Tax evasion goes over the line, and that's what we're talking about here. Literally hundreds of billions of dollars -- and it's by far a concentrated among the most wealthy -- not lower or middle income people like you're describing.

"The tax gap - the difference between what is actually owed and what is paid is very much disproportionately a function of those at the very top of the income scale.

"What the Inflation Reduction Act does is it enforces tax -- it enforces paying your taxes for the wealthiest taxpayers, and I don't think anyone, including you two, would object to that contention."


Tax Delinquent Dem Backs Plan To Hire Army of New IRS Agents

Matt Cartwright, who has a history of tax delinquency, endorses bill that more than doubles agency's size

Rep. Matt Cartwright (Getty images)
 • August 10, 2022 2:00 pm

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Congressman Matt Cartwright has a history of tax delinquency. That isn't stopping the Pennsylvania Democrat from backing a plan that would sic an army of nearly 90,000 new IRS agents on the American people.

Cartwright last year owed $436.63 in penalties and interest that stemmed from late property tax payments on his Washington, D.C., condo, the Washington Free Beacon reported last week. The incident was not his first tax-related mishap—from 2013 to 2018, the Democrat racked up thousands of dollars in penalties and interest related to his tax delinquencies. Still, Cartwright on Monday announced his support for the Inflation Reduction Act, Democrats' $430 billion spending bill that does little to fight inflation and gives the IRS $80 billion to hire up to 87,000 additional employees.

Cartwright's history of tax delinquency and subsequent support for the bill could haunt the congressman as he faces a difficult reelection bid against GOP challenger Jim Bognet. Cartwright trails the Republican by 1 point with 9 percent of voters undecided, internal polling obtained by the Free Beacon shows. 

Cartwright will also have to overcome Joe Biden's historic unpopularity, which has even extended to the president's hometown of Scranton. In Cartwright's eighth district, which includes Scranton, just 38 percent of voters approve of Biden, compared with 60 percent who disapprove, the Free Beacon revealed Wednesday. Despite Biden's hometown woes, Cartwright is standing by the president—unlike some of his House Democratic colleagues, the congressman has publicly backed Biden to run for reelection in 2024. Cartwright was also a staunch Biden supporter during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, having said in 2019 that he was "honored" to endorse his "friend, northeastern PA hometown boy, Joe Biden for president."

Cartwright did not return a request for comment. His Monday statement voicing support for Democrats' latest spending bill did not include a comment on its IRS-related provisions. Should that bill pass the House, the IRS will receive $80 billion to hire as many as 87,000 additional employees. The hiring spree would more than double the size of the agency's workforce, making the IRS larger than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol combined, the Free Beacon reported. Bognet has railed against the proposal, arguing that the Inflation Reduction Act should instead be called the "Audit America Act."

"With that many new IRS agents, every small business can expect to be audited," Bognet said Monday. "We must stop this spending spree, and we must stop this auditing spree."

Beyond the Cartwright-backed bill's proposed IRS expansion, even liberal economists don't believe the $430 billion Inflation Reduction Act will reduce inflation. Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi, whom Biden himself routinely cites, said in a new report that the legislation will cause no change in inflation until the third quarter of 2023, when Americans can expect to enjoy a .01 percent decrease.

Cartwright is nevertheless touting the bill as a win for Democrats. In his Monday statement, he called the bill "landmark legislation" that "the American people have been waiting for."

Cartwright's race against Bognet is not his first. The Democrat narrowly defeated Bognet by roughly 3 points in 2020, a result that marked the tightest reelection bid of his career. Bognet has thus far raised $1.2 million to Cartwright's $3.5 million.

GOP Rep. Cammack: Dems Are Lying about IRS Audits, They Rejected Amendment to Prevent Increased Audits on Non-Wealthy

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On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Wake Up America,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) stated that claims from the Biden administration and Democrats that the increased IRS funding in the Inflation Reduction Act reconciliation bill won’t be used to go after people making less than $400,000 are false because Senate Democrats rejected an amendment by Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) to keep the additional enforcement money for the IRS from being used to target people making less than $400,000 a year.

Cammack said, “Well it’s clear that that’s a lie because the Senate Democrats were — they were able to vote on an amendment to this package and say — and the amendment was quite simple. It said that none of these eighty-seven thousand IRS agents would target individuals or families making less than $400,000. Yet every Democrat shot that amendment down, which again, right there, told us their play. They’re interested in coming after working-class Americans and people who are making less than $400,000. which means that Joe Biden was lying all along.”

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Dems Poised To Make IRS Larger Than Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol Combined

Manchin-backed Inflation Reduction Act would more than double agency's size

 • August 6, 2022 5:00 am

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If Democrats have their way, one of the most detested federal agencies—the Internal Revenue Service—will employ more bureaucrats than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol combined.

Under the Inflation Reduction Act negotiated by Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.), the agency would receive $80 billion in funding to hire as many as 87,000 additional employees. The increase would more than double the size of the IRS workforce, which currently has 78,661 full-time staffers, according to federal data.

The additional IRS funding is integral to the Democrats' reconciliation package. A Congressional Budget Office analysis found the hiring of new IRS agents would result in more than $200 billion in additional revenue for the federal government over the next decade. More than half of that funding is specifically earmarked for "enforcement," meaning tax audits and other responsibilities such as "digital asset monitoring."

That would make the IRS one of the largest federal agencies. The Pentagon houses roughly 27,000 employees, according to the Defense Department, while a human resources fact sheet says the State Department employs just over 77,243 staff. The FBI employs approximately 35,000 people, according to the agency's website, and Customs and Border Protection says it employs 19,536 Border Patrol agents.

The money allocated to the IRS would increase the agency's budget by more than 600 percent. In 2021, the IRS received $12.6 billion.

Although Democrats say the hiring of additional IRS agents will help root out tax cheats and other criminals, federal tax revenues have steadily risen over the past several decades. Federal tax receipts are projected to hit $5.7 trillion in 2027, up from just over $4 trillion last year without additional IRS agents.

But the roughly $450 billion in new spending proposed by Democrats requires new funding mechanisms. Some of the new spending includes $161 billion for clean electricity tax credits and $64 billion in new Affordable Care Act subsidies.

The majority of new revenue from IRS audits and scrutiny will come from those making less than $200,000 a year, according to a study from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation. The committee found that just 4 to 9 percent of money raised will come from those making more than $500,000, contrary to Democrats' claims that new IRS agents are necessary to target millionaires and billionaires who hide income.

Senate Republicans argue that the roughly $45 billion the bill puts towards hiring IRS agents could be better spent on other priorities, such as helping students rebound from the learning loss suffered during COVID school closures. A proposal by Sen. Tim Scott (R., S.C.) would amend the spending bill to put the IRS money towards education tax credits.

"When faced with the decision to spend $45 billion on America’s largest revenue collection agency, or give it back to parents to help them get their kids the help they need, the Senate needs to choose the latter option every single time," Scott told the Free Beacon.

The Washington Free Beacon previously reported that, despite White House claims to the contrary, the Inflation Reduction Act does little to combat inflation. A report from Moody's Analytics found the Democratic bill will shave just .33 percent from the Consumer Price Index over the next decade.

Exclusive — Rep. Ted Budd Amendment Would Redirect Billions in IRS Funding to Border Security

NASHVILLE, TN - JUNE 18: Republican Rep. Ted Budd of North Carolina speaks on the last day of the annual "Road To Majority Policy Conference" held by the Faith & Freedom Coalition at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center June 18, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. Former President Donald Trump's …
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Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) is planning to submit an amendment to the so-called Inflation Reduction Act on Wednesday that would redirect billions in Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding to boost border security, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

Budd’s proposed amendment is in response to Democrats’ attempt to unleash the IRS on middle-class Americans by hiring more agents and massively bulking up IRS audits and criminal investigations to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. The amendment would redirect more than $69 billion of that funding to combat the U.S.-Mexico border crisis overseen by the Biden administration.

Instead of hiring 87,000 more IRS agents to treat working families like tax cheats, that funding should be directed to the crisis on the southern border. In FY 2022, there have been over 500,000 ‘got-aways’ at the border, and 8,400 pounds of fentanyl has been seized,” Budd told Breitbart News in a statement. 

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BUDD — Amendment Redirecting IRS Funding to Border Security by Breitbart News on Scribd

While the amendment would retain $15 million for the IRS to create a free e-file system, it would redirect $25 billion to build the border wall, more than $20 billion to hire 10,000 more border patrol agents, and more than $20 billion to hire 10,000 more ICE Enforcement and Removal agents. It would also provide $3.87 billion in IRS funds to hire 366 immigration judges (bringing the total to 1,000) and 60 staff attorneys for the Board of Immigration Appeals.

“We should be devoting more resources to the Biden Border Crisis, instead of making life harder for working families who are struggling under the weight of the Biden Recession,” Budd added. 

Lastly, the amendment includes a bill Budd introduced in April, the “Build the Wall Now Act,” which is designed to counteract the Biden administration’s efforts to stall construction of the border wall. That bill would unlock $2.1 billion in unspent funding appropriated for its construction.

On Sunday, the Senate passed the $700 billion Inflation Reduction Act — a scaled-down version of the Build Back Better Act. The legislation focuses on reducing the deficit and curbing inflation, extending enhanced Obamacare subsidies, spending more than $300 billion on climate change programs, and allowing Medicare to negotiate the price of drugs. However, both the Penn Wharton Budget Model and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) contend the legislation would not actually reduce inflation.

The Inflation Reduction Act will go up for a vote in the House on Friday. Barring any major developments, it is expected to pass.

 

Report– Joe Biden Warned Brother Frank: ‘For Christ’s Sake, Watch Yourself’


White House Withholds Docs Showing Biden Brother Peddled Mideast Connections to Score $600K in Loans

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/07/saudis-laugh-at-joe-biden-after.html

 

In what appears to be the latest example of Biden family members using the government as a personal cash machine, President Joe Biden’s brother James got $600,000 in loans from the now-defunct healthcare startup Americore by promising his family name would secure funding from Middle Eastern countries.

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/07/does-big-guy-joe-biden-get-50-of-gamer.html


$4,104,725,000,000: Federal Tax Collections Set Record Through July

By Terence P. Jeffrey | August 10, 2022 | 2:16pm EDT

  

(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) - The federal government collected a record $4,104,725,000,000 in total taxes in the first ten months of fiscal 2022 (October through July), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement.

That was up $503,787,000,000—or 13.9 percent—from the then-record $3,600,938,000,000 (in constant July 2022 dollars) that the Treasury collected in taxes in the first ten months of fiscal 2021.

The record $4,104,725,000,000 in total taxes that the federal government collect in the first ten months of this fiscal year included $2,263,483,000,000 in individual income taxes; $1,233,770,000 in social insurance and retirement taxes; $82,711,000,000 in customs duties; $67,496,000,000 in excise taxes; $26,662,000,000 in estate and gift taxes; and $116,315,000,000 in what the Treasury calls “miscellaneous receipts.”

While it was collecting this record $4,104,725,000,000 in taxes, the federal government also spent $4,830,844,000,000—resulting in a deficit of $726,119,000,000.

The Department of Health and Human Services spent the most of any federal agency in the first ten months of fiscal 2022, spending $1,330,121,000,000. The Social Security Administration spent the second most with $1,060,319,000,000 in expenditures.  The Department of Defense-Military Programs spent the third most with $589,931,000,000.

In the first ten months of this fiscal year, expenditures made by the Treasury to pay interest on Treasury debt securities ($589,480,000,000) almost exceeded Defense-Military Programs spending ($589,931,000,000).

The business and economic reporting of CNSNews.com is funded in part with a gift made in memory of Dr. Keith C. Wold.

IRS Hiring Spree Is the Biggest Expansion of the Police State in American History

 By David Harsanyi | August 12, 2022 | 10:06am EDT

  

 

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(Getty Images)

The Democrats' new reconciliation bill isn't just going to be the largest-ever expansion of a government agency. It's going to be the largest expansion of the domestic police state in American history. Only a statist could believe that a federal government, which already collects $4.1 trillion every year -- or $12,300 for every citizen -- supposedly needs 80 battalions of new IRS cops.

The average American has less reason to be concerned about cops with guns -- though the IRS is looking for special agents who can "carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary" -- than they do bureaucrats armed with pens who are authorized to sift through their lives.

If you pay your taxes you have nothing to worry about, Democrats claim. But most law-abiding citizens know they have something to fear from a state agency that doesn't concern itself with your due process, has no regard for your privacy and is empowered to target anyone it wants without any genuine oversight.

And, please, spare us this nonsense about the IRS expansion focusing exclusively on "high earners." White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre promised that the IRS wouldn't engage in new audits of anyone making under $400,000 -- a claim she has no authority to make and could not possibly predict even if she did.

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy also said that the bill was passed to stop an "epidemic of tax cheating amongst the millionaires and billionaires" and promised that "audit rates won't increase for anyone making under $400K."

This is a lie. Nothing in the bill that Democrats passed through the Senate limits audits. Murphy, along with every other Democrat in the Senate, voted against a Republican amendment that would have prevented new agents from auditing individuals and small businesses with less than $400,000 of taxable income.

Not long ago, Democrats passed the American Rescue Plan Act -- which had as much to do with rescuing as the Inflation Reduction Act has to do with reducing inflation -- and changed tax code so that mobile payment apps like Venmo and Cash App were now required to report transactions totaling $600 or more per year to the IRS. Does that sound like a party aiming fire exclusively at high-earning Americans?  

Indeed, poor and middle-class Americans are far more likely to do their own taxes, and thus more prone to making mistakes. In 2021, those making $25,000 or less (often the young and elderly) were audited at a rate five times higher than everyone else. The wealthier you are, the more likely it is that you can hire lawyers and accountants to work within the system. There aren't enough millionaires and billionaires in the world to keep a potential new 87,000 IRS employees busy.

There are other overlooked aspects of the Democrats' IRS expansion. The bill, for instance, strengthens the federal public-sector union monopoly that funds Democrats' political aspirations. IRS and Treasury Department employees spent 353,820 hours engaged in union activism -- their PAC gives every cent to the Democrats -- in 2019. One can imagine what another 87,000 employees would do for that effort. In the real world, laundering taxpayer funds through unions and using them on political campaigns is called racketeering.

None of this is to say that everyone who works for IRS is corrupt or power-hungry or an ideologue. The unassailable rules of giant bureaucracies, however, are that they always experience mission creep, they always do enough to justify their funding, and sooner or later, their leaders become political operatives.

With that said, it's worth remembering that the IRS doesn't simply collect taxes. It enforces speech codes. This is what empowered former IRS official Lois Lerner to target conservative groups -- "crazies and "a--holes" -- who used words like "Tea Party" or "patriots" in their names. But, even at the time, leftists at The New York Times editorial board praised the IRS for going after conservative groups because they did not "primarily" engage in "social welfare," and so did not deserve an exemption under Section 501(c)(4) of the tax code.

Has anything in the evolution of the Democratic Party given you confidence that such power would not be abused or that an engorged IRS would be immune from political pressure?

Wrestling with an insanely complex tax code -- nearly 8 million words -- costs Americans billions every year. Rather than flattening and simplifying this astonishingly convoluted code, which not only would have saved citizens but the government money, Democrats decided we needed up to another 87,000 people to enforce it.

 
 


David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books, the most recent, "Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent." His work has appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post and numerous other publications. Follow him on Twitter @davidharsanyi.


Rep. Ralph Norman: 87,000 IRS Agents Would Overflow 83,000-Seat Clemson Football Stadium

By Susan Jones | August 12, 2022 | 9:26am EDT

  

A view from the top of the North Stands of Clemons's Memorial Stadium. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
A view from the top of the North Stands of Clemson's Memorial Stadium. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

(CNSNews.com) - The Congressional Budget Office expects it to take "a few weeks to fully analyze and estimate the budgetary effects" of the Democrats' so-called Inflation Reduction Act," but no matter.

The House will vote on the mammoth bill today -- many lawmakers not bothering to return to D.C. to cast their vote in person. They'll do it remotely, thanks to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who recently extended the deadline for remote voting.

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) objects to many of the bill's provisions, including the plan to hire 87,000 new IRS agents:

"Get this, Maria," he told Fox News's Maria Bartiromo on Friday:

"The Clemson football stadium holds 83,000 fans. It won't even hold IRS agents that they are -- they're getting ready to hire. It's a total -- they're doing this for effect, and the American people don't deserve this.

“And the budget, look to call this the Inflation Reduction Act just goes to show you it's a bait and switch. It's anything but the inflation reduction act. This is going to fuel inflation, and again, the American people are getting hit in so many different ways and it's so unfair."

Norman said "the one thing" Democrats are good at is putting misleading labels on bills that do the opposite of what the title says:

"Here's what's in the bill," he said.

"Over of half of it's the green new deal. $250 billion, basically unsecured loans. You remember Solyndra. $1.3 billion for planting trees, what's that about? The $27 billion, with a B, to go to the slush funds of the EPA.

“The list goes on and on. It would be funny if it wasn't so serious for the American people and, you know, they've got to have consequences on this. And I think they will.

"When you combine what they're spending, no offsets -- and Maria, this did not go through the regular process. It did not go through the committees. It's 735 pages long. I doubt any congressman has read this, other than unelected bureaucrats who are running this country. It's not Joe Biden. He's vacationing. He's not capable anyway."

The White House has not released any information on Biden's vacation at a donor's mansion in South Carolina expect to say he has no public events scheduled.


Mace: We’re Hiring ‘Four Infantry Divisions’ of IRS to Go After Working Americans, Not Dealing with Refund Backlog

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On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends First,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said that it would be good if the “four infantry divisions of IRS agents” that the Inflation Reduction Act hires were primarily used to get people their refunds faster, that would be beneficial, but instead, “they’re going to be going after hardworking Americans.”

Mace stated, [relevant remarks begin around 2:20] “The 3rd Infantry Division is about 21,000 soldiers. So, we’re talking about four infantry divisions of IRS agents that are armed, that are spying on your Venmo, your bank account. They say they’re not going to go after those making less than 400,000 a year. We’ve been told a lot by the Biden administration that just hasn’t been true over the years. And people are really angry about this. If they were hiring them to get their refunds faster, I think we’d all be cheering for joy. Because there’s a huge backlog at the IRS. I get calls every single day about it. But, instead, they’re going to be going after hardworking Americans. And if you’re a small business making $400,000 a year as an S corp for example, you’re going to have less money to reinvest in your business, in your employees, or research and development. And it’s just going to make inflation worse. Inflation’s caused by spending. You can’t solve it by just more spending.”

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