Biden Promises: We Won't Use Beefed-Up IRS Against You

Published: Aug. 11, 2022, 7:12 p.m.

Republicans and conservatives have loudly protested the Democratic plan to expand the IRS vastly, and especially its enforcement arm, with an infusion of $80 billion included in the misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act. The $80 billion is, by many accounts, far more than the IRS needs, and Republicans are suspicious about how it will be spent.