There's growing uncertainty about when or even if the IRS plan for spending the $80 billion will be publicly released.

We know about the poor customer service. Less than 10 percent of the taxpayer calls are getting answered.

These shortfalls fall on hardworking Americans with modest income far under $400,000.

We have never had an argument in this committee about whether we need to give the IRS the necessary resources.

The IRS exists solely to serve taxpayers and fairly administer tax law.

If confirmed, Mr. Werfel, you must be the change agent we have long been promised.

More than $45 billion went to support an army of IRS agents.

There's growing uncertainty about when or even if the IRS plan for spending the $80 billion will be publicly released.

I want to get into that. From the IRS's own data, the two largest single components of the tax gap... are small businesses, small business income, and individual non-business income.

Secretary Yellen reportedly has said she's directed the IRS not to use this--somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 billion--to enforce against people with incomes less than $400,000.

I want to know whether there are any intentions at the IRS or any intention on your part to regulatorily seek to expand the ability of the IRS to literally invade and look into the bank accounts of Americans simply because they have…

So we're looking at 87,000 new IRS agents. The promise was that they're not going to come after anybody who makes less $400,000, but what's just come out is a new program aimed at how to better report tips.

This is a shakedown of small business operators and middle-class families to pay for expensive, partisan policies, and it just gets very, very bothersome.

I want to know whether you are going to commit today that the plan will not allow this super-sized enforcement money to be utilized against people who make less than $400,000 per year.

The IRS exists solely to serve taxpayers and fairly administer tax law.

I would hope that you wouldn't seek any plan like I just described, which I think is a violation of the privacy of our American citizens, unless Congress directed it.

If confirmed, Mr. Werfel, you must be the change agent we have long been promised.

The policies that have been enacted by President Biden's reckless tax and spending bill really are not going to be helpful in trying to regain the credibility of the American people for the agency.

I congratulate Karen Roetter, who is retiring as my regional director in my Coeur d'Alene office. Karen's humor, optimism, and dedication are hallmarks of who she is and will be greatly missed. Karen graduated from the University of Idaho…

as Americans who value the freedoms protected by our country's servicemembers, we must meet our responsibility to those who sacrificed so much for our country. To do this, we must continue to seek answers for families of America's…

I call up my amendment, No. 5404, and ask that it be reported by number. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report the amendment by number. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Idaho [Mr…

my amendment will guard against squeezing middle-class taxpayers. Supersized IRS funding will squeeze billions from the middle-class workers and small businesses through ramped-up audits. My colleagues on the other side and the President…

I yield myself 30 minutes from the bill time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. H.R. 5376

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