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There's a reason Republicans are hell bent on defending the IRS and the only other option isn't putting up much of a fight...
Democrats just increased funding for the IRS. So, yeah they are.
Not going to look up the actual numbers, but...
Dems said we need X billions dollars to fund the IRS.
Dems asked for billions less, got even less passed. Then went back and took billions more from that after it was passed as a "show of good faith" in negations with Republicans. I'm pretty fucking sure that was to get a budget passed, which Surprise! Republicans still didn't pass one.
That's why I said "the only other option isn’t putting up much of a fight…".
By Dems own admission we're not giving them enough, even before it was reduced multiple times.
They already increased it last year and are asking for more:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/06/inflation-reduction-act-irs/
I.... I just explained all that to you...
https://fortune.com/2023/09/07/internal-revenue-service-60-billion-irs-technology-ai/
That's from this month, notice how my link says 60 billion, and yours says 80 billion?
We'll simplify, just ignore the billion part, and the zero as well:
Which number is bigger, 6 or 8?
Don't want to go over your head, but we can reduce by a factor of two as well, 3 and 4. That's a 25% decrease in funding since your article...