All IRS Employees Will Keep Working if Government Shuts Down (1)

It will be all hands on deck at the IRS if the government shuts down at midnight Friday, according to a Treasury Department plan updated Thursday and an internal memo from the acting commissioner.

All 95,486 IRS employees will be exempt and retained in the case of a government-wide shutdown, with operations continuing with funds from the 2022 tax-and-climate law, the fiscal year 2025 plan said. A memo from Acting IRS Commissioner Melanie Krause to all employees confirms that policy.

The IRS got tens of billions in funding from the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act—which is outside the annual appropriations process ...