Elon Musk cast doubt over the $80 billion funding boost to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which is part of a Democrat-backed economic package passed by the Senate on Aug. 7.
“Seems high,” Musk, the billionaire tech mogul, said in a Monday post on Twitter in response to a report by the Washington Free Beacon. The conservative media outlet found that under a new law, the tax agency would employ more bureaucrats than the Pentagon, the State Department, the FBI, and Customs and U.S. Border Patrol combined.
His remarks came a day after the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a $740 billion health care and climate spending bill, formally known as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which allows the IRS to receive $79.6 billion through the fiscal year 2031 and hire up to 87,000 additional agents. The move, in a bid to increase audits of taxpayers and beef up federal tax revenue, could more than double the agency’s workforce….