The Biden Administration continues to push for crippling tax hikes and more spending that will worsen the 40-year high inflation that is robbing Americans’ paychecks.

During the Ways and Means Committee hearing on President Biden’s FY2023 Budget, Democrats repeated debunked claims about supercharging the IRS, their crippling tax increases, and the success of Republican tax reform.

Here are the facts:

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FALSE CLAIM: The IRS is underfunded, lacks hiring authority to deal with the backlog, and needs more resources.

FACTS:

• Within his first year in office, President Biden has overseen $6 trillion in total spending with more than $1 billion earmarked specifically by Democrats for COVID response by the IRS, but it took months of Republican pressure to take action on the then more than 20 million tax return backlog.
• Despite delays from Democrats, Congress has given the IRS explicit hiring authority to deal with the backlog and at the GOP’s urging, the IRS announced it will use money in its existing budget to hire 10,000 workers to address the crisis.
• Instead of helping American taxpayers this tax filing season, the Biden Administration has focused on adding more to the agency’s plate and advocating for a weaponized IRS. Adding 80,000 more *auditors* has nothing to do with addressing the backlog...

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