Defend IRS Funding as a High-Return Investment in Democracy

Policy analysts have warned that last month’s House vote to cut nearly all of the IRS’ transformative new funding wasn’t mere symbolism. We can be confident that the Senate and president won’t go along with gutting the deeply needed $80 billion, decade-long investment that the last Congress belatedly enacted as part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. But the annual ritual of budget battles and government shut-down threats will give the House multiple new opportunities and better leverage to achieve its gutting goal.

The public must remember why the IRS funding package is essential to our nation’s fiscal resilience ...