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IRS will compensate for firings with AI– mashable.com

pgnewser May 9, 2025

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has plans to take advantage of the “AI boom” to fill glaring workforce gaps, following the layoff of thousands of tax agents.

In a May 6 oversight hearing of the House Appropriations Committee, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explained that the agency would be leaning into AI solutions in order to accommodate further reductions in the IRS’ budget and staff and not fall behind on tax collection. The Treasury’s budget proposal includes the removal of another 40,000 jobs.

Judicial Watch Says IRS Unfairly Targets J6 Protesters, Files Lawsuit to Get the Records

pgnewser May 7, 2025

Judicial Watch sues IRS for records on possible targeting of J6 protesters – justthenews.com
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Judicial Watch said Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the IRS over possible targeting of Jan. 6th protesters.

The watchdog group group filed the Freedom of Information Act suit on April 25 to obtain records regarding potentially improper targeting of Jan. 6th Capitol rioters, their supporters, and related nonprofits.

The IRS didn’t respond to a FOIA request filed Jan. 22, which sought records of IRS officials, such as former Commissioner Daniel Werfel, acting Commissioner Douglas O’Donnell, and Chief Tax Compliance Officer Heather Maloy regarding President Trump or his pardons of the rioters and records about plans for audits of the rioters, their supporters, and related nonprofits.

Judicial Watch cited an NPR report from January 2024 that noted, “Democratic Congress members are calling for the IRS to scrutinize a nonprofit that supports defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and has close ties to the Trump campaign.”

The article mentioned that the nonprofit, the Patriot Freedom Project, “provides financial help to January 6 defendants and describes them as, quote, ‘political prisoners.'”

Republicans Introduce Bill to Prohibit the Arming of IRS Agents– lidblog.com

pgnewser April 21, 2025

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Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced legislation that would disarm the Internal Revenue Service and take away its millions of dollars of weapons and ammunition that it has.

The bill would prohibit the IRS from buying and storing firearms. It would also force the agency to sell its huge arsenal to licensed firearms dealers.

Per Just the News:

Since 2006, the IRS has spent $35.2 million on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment, according to an investigation by the nonprofit Open the Books, a spending watchdog. Since 2020, the IRS bought $10 million in weaponry and gear, according to a report from the group. The report also noted that the IRS had nearly 2,100 special agents. Included in the IRS purchases were $2.3 million for ammunition, $1.2 million for ballistic shields, $474,000 for Smith & Wesson rifles, and $463,000 for Baretta 1301 tactical shotguns.

Those weapons would be auctioned off under terms of the bill, which would require the IRS to transfer its gun collection to the General Services Administration. GSA would then have to sell and auction of the firearms to licensed dealers and the ammunition to the public.