#shorts On 1/10/2023, On the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said, “We said the first bill we’re going to take up is the bill to repeal those 87,000 IRS agents, and Adrian Smith is now – you have the plaque – so he’s got the plaque with the result of the vote: 221 votes yesterday. Every Republican voted for it. Every Democrat voted against it.
“Think about this: Yesterday, every Democrat went on record saying that they want to more than double the size of the IRS to go after people like the hardworking families, the single mom who’s working two shifts at a restaurant.
“The CBO confirmed that when they added those IRS agents, it wasn’t just to go after the millionaires and billionaires; it was to go after people making less than $200,000 a year. [This] broke President Biden’s pledge – we actually had an amendment when that bill was going through to say that the new IRS agents couldn’t go after people making less than $400,000 to hold President Biden to his own pledge. Do you know every Democrat voted against that amendment?
“So, those IRS agents would be set up to go after hardworking families across this country.
Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Republican Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Congressman Michael Cloud (R-Texas), Congressman Adrian Smith (R-Neb.), and Congressman Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.) at today’s leadership press conference to discuss how House Republicans are working to make Congress more accountable and accessible to the American people. Leader Scalise highlighted how the House of Representatives successfully passed the Rules Package, which will create a more open legislative process that will allow Republicans to address the crises that Democrats have created. Additionally, Leader Scalise emphasized that House Republicans’ first major accomplishment was to repeal the planned hiring of 87,000 IRS agents by President Biden and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi to audit low-income and middle class families.
other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/wH8D-X4K9AA
CBO confirmed 87K IRS agents not just go after millionaires, broke Biden’s pledge of more than $400K