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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat May 21, 2022, 08:47 PM May 2022

Republicans 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 agency’s funding. Since then, the cuts haven’t stopped, and Democrats aren’t 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.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/taxes/republicans-on-irs-funding-are-like-the-guy-in-the-hot-dog-suit-top-democrat-says-likening-their-complicity-in-gutting-the-agency-to-a-viral-netflix-comedy-sketch/ar-AAXxgF4

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Republicans on IRS funding are 'like the guy in the hot dog suit,' top Democrat says (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2022 OP
Republicans ALWAYS hobble government services, and then accuse government... Beartracks May 2022 #1
Bingo. That's their MO. yonder May 2022 #2
Most people who say government can't do it right... Beartracks May 2022 #3
"Since then, the cuts haven't stopped, and Democrats aren't happy. " Ferrets are Cool May 2022 #4

Beartracks

(12,761 posts)
1. Republicans ALWAYS hobble government services, and then accuse government...
Sat May 21, 2022, 08:58 PM
May 2022

... of being ineffective.

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Beartracks

(12,761 posts)
3. Most people who say government can't do it right...
Sat May 21, 2022, 09:43 PM
May 2022

... elect people who keep doing it wrong.





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Ferrets are Cool

(21,057 posts)
4. "Since then, the cuts haven't stopped, and Democrats aren't happy. "
Sat May 21, 2022, 11:22 PM
May 2022

Someone please help me. Aren't WE in control of the House?

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