{"id":2465805,"date":"2025-07-23T16:22:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-axes-significant-number-of-irs-employees-in-dramatic-reversal-of-biden-admin\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:23:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:23:31","slug":"trump-axes-significant-number-of-irs-employees-in-dramatic-reversal-of-biden-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-axes-significant-number-of-irs-employees-in-dramatic-reversal-of-biden-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Axes Significant Number of IRS Employees in Dramatic Reversal of Biden Admin"},"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\">26<\/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%2Ftrump-axes-significant-number-of-irs-employees-in-dramatic-reversal-of-biden-admin%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=2465805&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>The summary:<\/p>\n<p>The current presidential administration is continuing its efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hayward-five-ways-the-coronavirus-pandemic-strengthened-authoritarianism-worldwide\/\" title=\"Hayward: Five Ways the Coronavirus Pandemic Strengthened Authoritarianism Worldwide\">reduce government spending<\/a>, with a significant focus on downsizing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).According to a Treasury Inspector General report,the IRS workforce has been cut by nearly 26,000 employees-a 25% reduction-reversing the staffing increases made during the previous Biden administration. The cuts have impacted various IRS divisions including tax examiners, revenue agents, data technology, and management, with reductions ranging from 23% to 28% in these areas.Despite these reductions, the IRS remains well-staffed with about 77,000 employees. The report was informational and did not issue recommendations but highlighted the administration&#8217;s commitment to reducing government expenditure by trimming the IRS workforce.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The current presidential administration is sticking to its cost-cutting guns.<\/p>\n<p>Things <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/elon-musk-asks-viral-question-faith-trump-epstein-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">may not be especially chummy<\/a>&nbsp;between President Donald Trump and the former Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk these days &mdash; but it&rsquo;s clear that the spirit of DOGE lives on in the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>(For the unfamiliar, DOGE&rsquo;s entire existence is for the purpose of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-gets-good-news-after-leaving-politics-report\/\" title=\"Elon Musk Gets Good News After Leaving Politics: ...\">cutting excess government spending<\/a> and waste.)<\/p>\n<p>And that doesn&rsquo;t bode well for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/one-killer-fact-new-irs-commissioners-past-agency-shaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internal Revenue Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tigta.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/reports\/2025-07\/2025ier027fr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration published Friday, it was revealed just how much the IRS has been downsized after former President Joe Biden&rsquo;s administration tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/irs-begin-mailing-compliance-letters-100000-americans-action-made-possible-bidens-inflation-reduction-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beef it up<\/a> in his lone term.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); 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Bishop: &#039;Adam Schiff Is the Jussie Smollett of Congress&#039;\">inspector general noted<\/a> the following: &ldquo;According to IRS records, 25,386 employees separated, took a DRP offer, or used some other incentive to leave. Another 294 employees were sent termination notices due to [Reduction in Force] actions. These departures represent 25 percent of the IRS&rsquo;s workforce and impact certain business units more than others.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Additionally, the separations impacted employees in certain positions (e.g., job series). For example, approximately 27 percent of tax examiners separated, while 26 percent of revenue agents separated,&rdquo; the TIGTA report added.<\/p>\n<p>The report explained: &ldquo;Tax examiners are responsible for reviewing and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >processing federal tax returns<\/a> to ensure compliance and accuracy. Revenue agents conduct examinations (audits) by reviewing financial records of individuals and businesses to verify what is reported.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In short, there are a lot of changes coming to the IRS, largely associated with the department&rsquo;s cost-cutting measures.<\/p>\n<p>TIGTA did make clear that this report was &ldquo;informational&rdquo; only and that the organization played no role in any of the actual reductions.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This report presents the results of our review to provide an update on the Internal Revenue Service&rsquo;s efforts to reduce its workforce,&rdquo; wrote Deputy Inspector General for Inspections and Evaluations Nancy A. LaManna. &ldquo;This report provides information about IRS workforce reductions resulting from the deferred resignation programs, retirements, and other separations.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our report is informational only. We made no recommendations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Despite these cuts, the IRS is still a well-staffed department by virtually any metric.<\/p>\n<p>After these cuts are enacted, there will still be 77,000 employees at the IRS, including over 3,000 &ldquo;probationary workers&rdquo; who had returned to the office.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Although the relationship between President Donald Trump and former Department of Government Efficiency leader Elon Musk may not be very friendly at the moment, it&#8217;s evident that DOGE&#8217;s mission continues under Trump&#8217;s leadership. (For those unfamiliar, DOGE was created specifically to eliminate unnecessary government spending and waste.) This approach does not bode well for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). A recent report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration revealed significant downsizing at the IRS following efforts by former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration to strengthen the agency during his term.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Washington Times summary of the report, nearly 26,000 IRS employees have been cut through buyouts and firings-a 25% reduction in staff-as part of President Trump&#8217;s effort to reverse Biden-era expansions. Key divisions were heavily affected: tax examiners were reduced by 27%, revenue agents by 26%, information technology staff by 23%, and management and analysis personnel by 28%.<\/p>\n<p>The inspector general detailed that over 25,000 employees left voluntarily or through incentives like Deferred Retirement Programs (DRP), while nearly 300 received termination notices due to workforce reductions. These cuts disproportionately impacted certain roles; for example, about a quarter of tax examiners-who review federal tax returns-and revenue agents-who audit financial records-departed.<\/p>\n<p>While these changes reflect major cost-cutting measures within the IRS, TIGTA emphasized that their report is purely informational and they had no involvement in implementing these reductions. Deputy Inspector General Nancy A. LaManna stated that their review simply updates on workforce decreases resulting from retirements, resignations, and other separations without offering recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these staffing cuts, the IRS remains a large agency with approximately 77,000 employees still on board-including over 3,000 probationary workers who have returned onsite after remote work periods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2465806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IRS-building-3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32502,36586,8362,7970,3634],"class_list":["post-2465805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-biden-administration","tag-government-policy","tag-irs","tag-layoffs","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IRS-building-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465805","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=2465805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465809,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465805\/revisions\/2465809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2465806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}