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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans on IRS funding are 'like the guy in the hot dog suit,' top Democrat says
The IRS is in big trouble. It has a historic backlog of unprocessed tax returns and the thinnest workforce the agency has had in decades.
House Republicans have been hitting the IRS with a steady wave of funding cuts since at least 2011, in response to signals that then-President Barack Obama intended to increase the agencys funding. Since then, the cuts havent stopped, and Democrats arent happy.
On Thursday, Ron Wyden, Democratic senator from Oregon who currently chairs the Senate Finance Committee, chided Republicans for the depleted state of the IRS, suggesting that the party is to blame for millions of unprocessed tax returns this year. It is unclear if Wyden was responding to any new measure from Republican lawmakers with regards to IRS funding.
Republicans are the guy in the hot dog suit, swearing up and down that they are trying to find the guy who did this, Wyden said during a Senate floor speech, referencing a comedy sketch from the Netflix show I Think You Should Leave, that has since become an internet meme.
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Beartracks
(12,761 posts)... of being ineffective.
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yonder
(9,631 posts)Beartracks
(12,761 posts)... elect people who keep doing it wrong.
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Ferrets are Cool
(21,057 posts)Someone please help me. Aren't WE in control of the House?