{"id":128963,"date":"2022-08-09T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T14:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=128963"},"modified":"2022-08-08T20:36:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T00:36:36","slug":"ted-cruz-criticizes-plan-to-hire-87000-new-irs-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=128963","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz criticizes plan to hire 87,000 new IRS employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Steve-Crowder-change-my-mind-more-IRS-agents-can-conduct-more-audits.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-128964\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Steve-Crowder-change-my-mind-more-IRS-agents-can-conduct-more-audits-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Steve-Crowder-change-my-mind-more-IRS-agents-can-conduct-more-audits-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Steve-Crowder-change-my-mind-more-IRS-agents-can-conduct-more-audits-445x333.jpg 445w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Steve-Crowder-change-my-mind-more-IRS-agents-can-conduct-more-audits-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Steve-Crowder-change-my-mind-more-IRS-agents-can-conduct-more-audits.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senator Ted Cruz warns about a provision in the spending bill that increases the size of the IRS. He attempted to use an amendment to remove funding allocated to hire 87,000 new IRS agents. Cruz indicated that the pending growth of the IRS would result in their being larger than the Pentagon and three other departments combined.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From Just the News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My amendment would have struck the funding for 87,000 new IRS agents,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;But Democrats want to target the American people and their small businesses will more audits. These agents aren&#8217;t going to go after billionaires.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Democrats want to make the IRS larger than the Pentagon, the State Department, the FBI, and the Border Patrol combined,&#8221; he argued. &#8221; That&#8217;s a terrible idea. We should abolish the IRS!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cruz warned in a separate statement that the new IRS agents will be targeting the middle class, not the wealthy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to expert analysis, it will supercharge the IRS with 87,000 new IRS agents to target Americans with 1.2 million new audits, more than half of which would be for people making less than $75,000 a year,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just the News has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/congress\/ted-cruz-blasts-biden-plan-make-irs-larger-fbi-border-patrol-87000-new-hires\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Ted Cruz warns about a provision in the spending bill that increases the size of &hellip; <a title=\"Ted Cruz criticizes plan to hire 87,000 new IRS employees\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=128963\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ted Cruz criticizes plan to hire 87,000 new IRS employees<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}