GOP senators argue Build Back Better bill would create ‘supersized’ IRS

Published December 14, 2021 7:26pm ET



As Senate Democratic leaders scramble to vote on President Joe Biden’s sweeping social spending bill before Christmas, Republican senators are painting the bill as a recipe for a “supersized” IRS.

In remarks at a press conference Tuesday, Republican senators argued the Build Back Better Act would grant $80 billion in mandatory funding to the IRS and provide an estimated 87,000 new IRS agents.

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