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On the recordMarch 15, 2023
I so agree with my colleague from West Virginia and her comments about this budget. Here it is. I would encourage our citizens to pick it up and give it a read and look at some of the things that they are going to find in here. I think they are going to be aghast at what they find in here-- $477,000 to the IRS for equity training so that they can put an emphasis on equity. These are just some of the porked-up things that you are going to find in this left-leaning, radical, unrealistic wish list of a budget that this administration has brought forward. It really is a blueprint to socialism. Let's put the government in charge of everything, your life from daylight to dark every time you are out and about. Let's have control over your gas stove, over your washing machine, over your showerhead, over your toilet flusher. That is what my colleagues on the left see. That is their goal--control over the people, governing by the elite for the elite. That is what they are all about. But I am going to drill down a little bit on this funding request for the Internal Revenue Service. Now, President Biden is expecting the IRS to go to work, getting not just a few dollars but getting $4.7 trillion in new taxes. Imagine that. Tennesseans do not want to pay the government more of their hard- earned paycheck.…
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Marsha Blackburn
Republican · Tennessee
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Mar 15, 2023

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