On the recordMarch 14, 2025
Mr. President, this isn't about spending $46 billion; it is about saving $20 billion. The Democrats' partisan supersized IRS funding is something we have been battling over for a couple of years now. It is a textbook example of the type of out-of-control spending that President Trump and Republicans have rightly opposed. Rather than working together to help the IRS solve its massive taxpayer service and IT shortcomings, the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act went to fund untargeted and heavily handed enforcement improvement. As I had mentioned at the time, the last thing hard-working Americans need is an IRS funding bloat that disproportionately hurts them. I urge my colleagues to vote against this amendment to provide the IRS nearly two times its entire annual budget in unaccountable enforcement dollars. Vote on Amendment No. 1273 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question now occurs on the adoption of the amendment.
