{"id":1743214,"date":"2022-11-18T03:17:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T08:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1743214"},"modified":"2022-11-18T03:17:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T08:17:36","slug":"why-is-the-government-arming-more-federal-bureaucrats-than-us-marines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-is-the-government-arming-more-federal-bureaucrats-than-us-marines\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is The Government Arming More Federal Bureaucrats Than US Marines?"},"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%2Fwhy-is-the-government-arming-more-federal-bureaucrats-than-us-marines%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=1743214&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>When Congress authorized $80 billion this year to beef up Internal Revenue Service enforcement and staffing, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy warned that \u201cDemocrats\u2019 new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A video quickly went viral racking up millions of views, purporting to show a bunch of clumsy bureaucrats receiving firearms training, prompting alarm that the IRS would be engaged in military-style raids of taxpayers. The GOP claims were widely attacked as exaggerations \u2014 since the video, though from the IRS, didn\u2019t show official\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc10.com\/article\/news\/verify\/government-verify\/viral-irs-video-and-photos-do-not-show-irs-agent-training-fact-check\/536-c00f202c-ddb4-44a7-9cfa-623e5b730875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">agent training<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 but the criticism has shed light on a growing trend: the rapid arming of the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>A report issued last year by the watchdog group Open The Books, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openthebooks.com\/assets\/1\/6\/Militarization_Data_for_Imaging_FINAL_31.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Militarization of The U.S. Executive Agencies<\/a>,\u201d found that more than 200,000 federal bureaucrats now have been granted the authority to carry guns and make arrests \u2014 more than the 186,000 Americans serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. \u201cOne hundred three executive agencies outside of the Department of Defense spent $2.7 billion on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment between fiscal years 2006 and 2019 (inflation adjusted),\u201d notes the report. \u201cNearly $1 billion ($944.9 million) was spent between fiscal years 2015 and 2019 alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog reports that the Department of Health and Human Services has 1,300 guns including one shotgun, five submachine guns, and 189 automatic firearms. NASA has its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/emergency-response-team-trains-to-protect-kennedy-workforce-and-assets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">own fully outfitted SWAT team<\/a>, with all the attendant weaponry, including armored vehicles, submachine guns, and breeching shotguns. The Environmental Protection Agency has purchased drones, GPS trackers, radar equipment, and night vision goggles, and stockpiled firearms.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/gao-19-175.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2018 Government Accountability Office report<\/a>\u00a0noted that the IRS had 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition in inventory at the end of 2017 \u2014 before the enforcement funding boost this year. The IRS did not respond to requests for information, though the IRS\u2019s Criminal Investigation division does put out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jobs.irs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/wysiwyg-uploads\/files\/2021_Annual_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an annual report<\/a>\u00a0detailing basic information such as how many warrants the agency is executing in a given year.<\/p>\n<p>More than a hundred executive agencies have armed investigators, and apparently no independent authority is monitoring or tracking the use of force across the federal government. Agencies contacted by RealClearInvestigations from HHS to EPA declined to provide, or said they did not have, comprehensive statistics on how often their firearms are used, or details on how they conduct armed operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would be amazed if that data exists in any way,\u201d said Trevor Burrus, a research fellow in constitutional and criminal law at the libertarian Cato Institute. \u201cOver the years of working on this, it\u2019s quite shocking how much they try to not have their stuff tracked on any level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All this weaponry raises questions about whether the 200,000 armed federal agents are getting adequate weapons and safety training. HHS did not respond to a request for comment on the $14 million in guns, ammunition, and military equipment it purchased between 2015 and 2019 or its new National Training Operations Center within the Washington, D.C. Beltway.\u00a0Another government agency \u2014 Federal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea that agencies are empowered to effectively create their own laws\u00a0and\u00a0go out and enforce them with armed federal agents should be alarming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":1743217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1743214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743214","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\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1743217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}