{"id":1664006,"date":"2022-09-29T09:05:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T13:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1664006"},"modified":"2022-09-29T09:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T13:05:21","slug":"republicans-seek-to-divert-irs-enforcement-funding-boost-for-border-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-seek-to-divert-irs-enforcement-funding-boost-for-border-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Seek to Divert IRS Enforcement Funding Boost for Border Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-seek-to-divert-irs-enforcement-funding-boost-for-border-security%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1664006&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Republicans have released a draft bill that would halt the nearly $50 billion funding boost for Internal Revenue Service (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-irs\">IRS<\/a>) enforcement in the \u201cInflation Reduction Act\u201d and instead use the money to bolster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-border\">border<\/a> security.<\/p>\n<p>Called the \u201cDiverting IRS Resources to the Exigent Crisis Through (DIRECT) Funds for Border Security Act\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/tenney.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/tenney.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/DIRECT%20Funds%20for%20Border%20Security%20Act.pdf\">pdf<\/a>), the legislation seeks to stop \u201cBiden\u2019s new IRS army from launching audits of middle-class families\u201d and instead use the funds to hire more U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, <a href=\"https:\/\/tenney.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/congresswoman-tenney-introduces-legislation-redirecting-new-irs-funding-middle\">according to a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration\u2019s failure to secure the border and enforce our immigration laws has created an unmitigated disaster at our Southern Border that is impacting communities across the country,\u201d Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), co-sponsor of the bill, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Calling President Joe Biden\u2019s priorities \u201ctwisted,\u201d Tenney alleged that the president and Congressional Democrats were ignoring the problem at the southern border and were \u201cinstead giving tens of billions of dollars to the IRS, not to improve its services but so they can audit an additional 700,000 working-class Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have accused the Biden administration of earmarking funds to hire an additional 87,000 IRS agents, some of whom would be used to target lower and middle-income Americans with audits.<\/p>\n<p>Biden administration officials have insisted there would not be an increase in audit rates among Americans earning less than $400,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI direct that any additional resources\u2014including any new personnel or auditors that are hired\u2014shall not be used to increase the share of small business or households below the $400,000 threshold that are audited relative to historical levels,\u201d Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in an Aug. 10 letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig.<\/p>\n<p>Yellen said enforcement resources would instead focus on \u201chigh-end compliance\u201d and that small businesses and\u00a0 households earning $400,000 per year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans have released a draft bill that would halt the nearly $50 billion funding boost for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) enforcement in the \u201cInflation Reduction Act\u201d and instead use the money to bolster border security. 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