WASHINGTON, DC – House Ways and Means Committee Republicans questioned Secretary Yellen about the Biden Administration’s plans to spend $80 billion to hire 87,000 agents to audit working-class families, raise taxes by $4.7 trillion, and its failure to reassure the public about the IRS’s politically motivated leaks of confidential tax information.
WASHINGTON, DC – President Biden’s budget puts patients and cures last while expanding Washington command and control over America’s health care economy. This budget ignores looming cuts to Medicare, doubles down on Democrats’ harmful cures-limiting plans, expands government-controlled health care, imposes hundreds of billions in new taxes on small businesses, and ...
"Thank you, Madame Secretary, for appearing before the Ways & Means Committee today. I will note, last year we waited 71 days between the release of the President’s Budget and your testimony before this Committee. So we commend you for promptly appearing today, on the day after the Budget was released, to defend President Biden’s $5 trillion tax hike.
"After two years of economic ...
WASHINGTON, DC – American taxpayers struggling in the Biden economy deserve answers about how President Biden’s $4.7 trillion tax hike, proposed in his fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget, will impact them, wrote Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) in a letter to ...
WASHINGTON, DC – A think tank with ties to the liberal wing of the Democrat party is drawing scrutiny from Ways and Means Republicans after it was selected by the Biden Administration to receive $15 million in taxpayer funds to “review” an e-file program designed to make the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) both tax collector and tax preparer – a program for which the ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08), U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) are requesting detailed information from top government health officials regarding the $3 billion drug price-setting implementation fund included in the ...
WASHINGTON, DC – Nineteen months after a massive leak of confidential taxpayer information was published by ProPublica, the American people are still in the dark, charged House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) in a letter sent today to the Treasury ...
WASHINGTON, DC – After the IRS failed to fulfill a request by Congress’s top tax panel to inform the agency’s more than 80,000 employees about a new whistleblower portal for reporting misconduct and abuse within the ...
WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the Ways and Means Republicans ongoing aggressive oversight of the Biden Administration and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) sent a letter today to Acting ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Ways and Means Committee, under a new Republican majority, has established an online form to assist Internal Revenue Service (IRS) personnel who wish to submit information confidentially to the Committee regarding any inappropriate behavior or mishandling of taxpayer ...