A 2021 report from the Congressional Budget Office indicated that the $80 billion in added IRS funding over 10 years would yield approximately $200 billion in added tax revenue without raising taxes. The Biden administration this week said $140 billion would be added to the debt over a decade due to the cuts, per the Washington Post.

Anyone who says republicans are good at the budget and national debt should be laughed out of the room.

They are the worst of people and I pray that saint luigi will visit them.

No points for guessing who benefits most from a reduced IRS budget ..

Cutting money to the only government agency that can actually turn a decent profit, in order to save money. How very republican.

To avoid the debt getting too large, let's stop funding the agency that brings in the most income.

Anyone who makes $100,000 (gross) in wages, or less should not have to pay Federal taxes. Wealthy corporations, citizens, and all churches should be paying their fair share of all taxes.

So, Republicans are no-so-quietly saying that everyone should cheat on their taxes, or is this just for the rich?

It’s funny because the IRS was instrumental in a 300 pervert roundup by tracking Bitcoin transactions, some of them government workers. I wonder why they’d want to cut that.

The party super concerned about the debt is also the one who wants to defund their only source of income. Brilliant.

But don't worry. They'll still have enough resources to go after ordinary people.

Couldn't have been accomplished without democrats

Realize the new tactic, trump admin will have the group of secondary goons fighting in public over multiple concepts, they'll wait to see where public sentiment falls (or more likely how the money feels), and then trump will jump on the bandwagon and "punish" the face of the "losing" side as if he was for the "winning" side all along.

In the meantime, heritage foundation directed gop will use every second of the distraction to quietly pass bad law.

Examples:

• they just quietly defunded the department that tracks and reports on foreign propaganda efforts after musk just attacked it publicly link

• And they just gutted $20b from the IRS that could be used to audit millionaires and billionaires - the IRS famously brings in more money for every dollar funded into the service link

Not Republicans. Congress did. The bill only passed because of a bipartisan vote.