It is important that we do this, and it is important in red States, blue States, everywhere in America.

Ending this free, easy-to-use and popular program would be an insult to American taxpayers, eliminating an important alternative to commercial options provided by the tax prep industry.

Taxpayers have spoken loudly and clearly: Direct File works well for them, and more Americans want access to it.

Americans deserve an IRS that ensures that folks at the top pay what they owe, and that honest hardworking Americans can file their taxes without spending an excessive amount of time or a lot of money to get that done.

I think that's a failure. Tax prep companies have sabotaged the Free File program.

Americans deserve an IRS that ensures that folks at the top pay what they owe, and that honest hardworking Americans can file their taxes without spending an excessive amount of time or a lot of money to get that done.

it is high time for the IRS to develop its own truly free and easy way for hardworking Americans to file their taxes and to claim their refunds.

But thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS now has the resources it needs to make tax filing free and easy.

So for years, lobbyists and antitax extremists have worked to gut the IRS, to prevent it from chasing down wealthy tax cheats.

So for years, lobbyists and antitax extremists have worked to gut the IRS, to prevent it from chasing down wealthy tax cheats.

it is high time for the IRS to develop its own truly free and easy way for hardworking Americans to file their taxes and to claim their refunds.

But thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS now has the resources it needs to make tax filing free and easy.

I think that's a failure. Tax prep companies have sabotaged the Free File program.

When it comes to filing taxes online, the status quo is unacceptable.

it is high time for the IRS to develop its own truly free and easy way for hardworking Americans to file their taxes and to claim their refunds.

So for years, lobbyists and antitax extremists have worked to gut the IRS, to prevent it from chasing down wealthy tax cheats.

Speaker McCarthy is also working overtime to rally Republicans around a plan that would gut health care and increase hunger among tens of millions of Americans.

For all their talk about our country's fiscal health, they're still committed to giving billionaires a free pass to cheat on their taxes.

I think that's a failure. Tax prep companies have sabotaged the Free File program.

But thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS now has the resources it needs to make tax filing free and easy.

Americans deserve an IRS that ensures that folks at the top pay what they owe, and that honest hardworking Americans can file their taxes without spending an excessive amount of time or a lot of money to get that done.

But we also cannot lose sight of the ways that drug companies continue to abuse our intellectual property laws to drive out competition, to jack up prices, and to protect their profits.

So last year, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which finally gives HHS the authority to negotiate drug prices for a select number of high-priced brand-name drugs.

So, think about that. More than three out of four new patent applications for pharmaceuticals are for existing drugs.

Okay. So drug companies use these tricks, and a lot of others, to keep their monopolies and keep pushing prices higher and higher and higher.