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Originally Posted by whell

So, what's the fake news here? That the IRS originally listed in the qualifications for the job that qualified applicants must be willing to use deadly force? Or that the IRS removed it from the list of qualifications?

The Internal Revenue Service does not plan to use the nearly $80 billion it's set to receive in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to hire 87,000 new agents in order to target middle class Americans, a Treasury Department official told ABC News and documents verify, rejecting a claim widely circulated by Republican lawmakers and right-wing media personalities.

A sizable portion of the money will go toward improving taxpayer services and modernizing antiquated, paper-based IRS operations, according to Treasury and the IRS, in an effort to update an agency well documented as being chronically starved of resources for decades.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trea...ry?id=88495613