Trump’s Federal Workforce Threats Poised to Stall IRS Expansion

Promises by President-elect Donald Trump and his allies to eliminate telework, weaken civil-service protections for federal workers, and reverse funding increases for the IRS threaten to roll back the agency’s improvement in answering its phones and strip it of resources to find tax cheats.

These plans to overhaul the federal workforce, in particular, augur disruption at many agencies, including at the IRS where tens of billions in funding from the Democrats’ 2022 tax-and-climate law have helped the agency recover following decades of underfunding. More cuts in that funding are imminent with a Republican-controlled Congress.

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