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Supercharged IRS

The new Manchin-Biden Build Back Better bill allots $80 billion in new funding for the IRS – more than six times the agency’s current annual budget.

Included in the $80 billion is funding to send 87,000 new IRS agents after you and your family-owned business on the belief that everyone is a tax cheat. The IRS has already been targeting lower and middle income earners, yet Democrats want to hire new IRS agents to audit individuals and small businesses. They’ve also promised to revive their invasive bank surveillance scheme.

Fact Check: Manchin-Biden Bill Loaded with Special Interest Giveaways

August 22, 2022 — 'Inflation Reduction Act'

Click here to view as a PDF. Billions of dollars in Democrats’ so-called Inflation Reduction Act will go to special interests, yet Biden is using over-the-top, gratuitously partisan falsehoods, claiming “Democrats sided with the American people and every ...

Democrats Fail to Protect Middle Class From IRS Audits

August 17, 2022 — 'Inflation Reduction Act'

Democrats voted against guardrails that would have protected lower- and middle- income taxpayers from more audits as a result of supercharging the IRS with 87,000 new agents.   Instead, they hope you’ll just “take their word for it” that the IRS won’t target American families who are living paycheck to ...

Smith: Families Struggling with Record-High Inflation Don’t Need More IRS Audits

August 12, 2022 — 'Inflation Reduction Act'

Democrats’ Manchin-Biden Build Back Better paves the way for more audits on hard-working taxpayers instead of offering relief for American families struggling with inflation, Republican Leader on the Trade Subcommittee Rep. Adrian Smith (R-TX) writes in an op-ed for Fox News. Democrats rejected Republican efforts to ...