{"id":1677106,"date":"2022-10-06T23:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T03:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1677106"},"modified":"2022-10-06T23:20:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T03:20:35","slug":"shows-you-what-his-priorities-are-blake-masters-hits-mark-kelly-for-backing-bidens-irs-buildup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shows-you-what-his-priorities-are-blake-masters-hits-mark-kelly-for-backing-bidens-irs-buildup\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shows You What His Priorities Are\u2019: Blake Masters Hits Mark Kelly For Backing Biden\u2019s IRS Buildup"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fshows-you-what-his-priorities-are-blake-masters-hits-mark-kelly-for-backing-bidens-irs-buildup%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=1677106&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>Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/blake-masters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blake Masters<\/a> challenged Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mark-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Kelly<\/a> (D-AZ) on Thursday over the Democrat\u2019s support for legislation beefing up the IRS with 87,000 more agents while voting against an amendment that would have funded 18,000 more Border Patrol agents.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly and Masters faced off in a debate, the first and likely only one in the race for one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona<\/a>\u2019s seats in the U.S. Senate, in Phoenix on Thursday evening. The two major party candidates were joined on stage by Libertarian candidate Marc Victor.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after opening remarks, Kelly and Masters entered a back-and-forth over immigration and inflation. Masters hit Kelly over his votes on the Inflation Reduction Act by contrasting the bill\u2019s funding of 87,000 additional IRS agents and Kelly\u2019s vote against an amendment that would have funded an additional 18,000 Border Patrol agents to help handle the immigration crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark Kelly said no to 18,000 more Border Patrol agents, but yes to 87,000 new IRS agents. That shows you what his priorities are,\u201d Masters said. \u201cMark Kelly left our southern border wide open, voted for all the trillions in spending that caused this massive inflation, and he thinks the fix is 87,000 new IRS agents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly stated that he voted for additional resources for the U.S. Border Patrol in other votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are votes that happen in D.C. that have nothing to do with Border Patrol agents, and it might have the title on it and nothing happens, right? So what I have done is I got $1 billion more for Border Patrol agents, for staffing, you know, for the technical systems to monitor the border, and, where they make sense, to build more border barriers,\u201d Kelly said.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-signs-740-billion-inflation-reduction-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed<\/a> the Inflation Reduction Act, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu\/issues\/2022\/8\/12\/senate-passed-inflation-reduction-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expected<\/a> to have no near-term impact on inflation, into law in August after the legislation was passed through both chambers of Congress with no GOP support. The bill allocated $740 billion toward the IRS, Affordable Care Act subsidies, and green energy subsidies and tax credits among other spending.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS\u2019s portion was $80 billion, allowing the agency to hire tens of thousands more agents to conduct audits and enforce the tax code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Blake Masters challenged Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) on Thursday over the Democrat\u2019s support for legislation beefing up the IRS with 87,000 more agents while voting against an amendment that would have funded 18,000 more Border Patrol agents. Kelly and Masters faced off in a debate, the first and likely only one in the race &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1677108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1677108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}