By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-18 22:58:47 | Updated at 2025-01-19 02:15:08
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IRS Head Forced to Resign 3 Years Early as Trump Prepares to Drain the Swamp
The Gateway Pundit ^ | January 18, 2025 | Jim Hoft
Posted on 01/18/2025 2:39:59 PM PST by Twotone
IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel announced his resignation just days before Trump’s return to the Oval Office.
Werfel, who had three years left in his term, made the decision to step down on President-elect Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day as Trump has nominated former Missouri Congressman Billy Long as the new IRS Commissioner to revitalize the corrupt agency.
“After significant introspection and consultation with others, I’ve determined the best way to support a successful transition is to depart the IRS on January 20, 2025,” Werfel said in a memo obtained by Wall Street Journal.
“While leaving a job you love is never easy, I take comfort in knowing that the civil servant leaders and employees at the IRS are the exact right team to effectively steward this organization forward until a new IRS Commissioner is confirmed.”
He continued, “While I had always intended to complete my full term as Commissioner, the President-elect has announced his plan to nominate a new IRS Commissioner. I have been touched by those who have reached out to me to share how they were hopeful that I could remain in seat and continue the important work underway. But as civil servants, we have a job to do, and that job is to now ensure a new Commissioner is set up for success.”
Trump’s decision to overhaul the IRS is in line with his broader promise to “drain the swamp” and restore accountability within federal agencies.
In 2022, The Democrat Senate passed the sweeping economic package that would allocate billions of taxpayer dollars to facilitate the expansion of the Internal Revenue Service’s workforce.
The IRS would receive $80 billion if H.R. 5376, the $750 billion “Inflation Reduction Act” passes the House and lands on Biden’s desk. The funding would mark a 600 percent increase from 2021 when the bureau received $12.6 billion.
The reconciliation package would also double the current IRS workforce by hiring an additional 87,000 employees to the bureau’s staff of 78,661 employees. At 165,661 employees, the IRS is poised to become larger than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI and Border Patrol combined total employees of 158,779.
The IRS has been accused of selectively auditing conservative organizations.
Senator J.D. Vance highlighted instances where the agency harassed right-leaning groups. This selective scrutiny harks back to previous abuses, notably during the Obama era, where the IRS targeted Tea Party groups.
A report by the House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government detailed egregious civil liberties abuses, including unannounced visits to journalists’ homes on days they testified before Congress.
Alarmingly, nearly 6,000 IRS employees, approximately 5% of its workforce, owe about $50 million in unpaid taxes. Despite their role in enforcing tax compliance, the majority have no plans to settle their debts.
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KEYWORDS: billylong; dannywerfel; irs; swamp
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6,000 IRS employees...should be fired!
1 posted on 01/18/2025 2:39:59 PM PST by Twotone
To: Twotone
IMO, 50% of all IRS employees need to be fired...
Most of them are “supposedly” working from home...
Most of them have secondary jobs/incomes...
2 posted on 01/18/2025 2:46:07 PM PST by SuperLuminal
To: Twotone
More good news. Maybe more will come from this.
3 posted on 01/18/2025 2:46:24 PM PST by skr (1 Peter 1:15 - But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation)
To: Twotone
Danny better not owe any back taxes. 87,000 armed agents. Put them on the border.
4 posted on 01/18/2025 2:49:49 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: Twotone
I still want Lois Lerner’s head on a pike. Legally and dispassionately, of course.
Trump is the Draino King. Their frenzied queefing can’t stop him.
6 posted on 01/18/2025 2:53:57 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
To: Twotone
Decent in college, crummy as a pro.
7 posted on 01/18/2025 2:55:51 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
To: Dr. Sivana
I see what you did there...
8 posted on 01/18/2025 2:56:58 PM PST by kosciusko51
To: SuperLuminal
A number of IRS employees are delinquent on their taxes. Take the taxes they owe out of their last check.
To: Twotone
> “While I had always intended to complete my full term as Commissioner, the President-elect has announced his plan to nominate a new IRS Commissioner.“ <
I suspect we’ll be posting this image many times in the days and weeks to come. For me, it will never get old.
10 posted on 01/18/2025 2:57:30 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
To: SuperLuminal
“Most of them are “supposedly” working from home...”
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The government is supposedly protective of various classes of documents that contain ‘personally identifiable’ information and/or other kinds of ‘Sensitive But Unclassified” and ‘For official Use Only” documents.
So how do federal employees prevent disclosure of such information while working at home? At the office there are strict access controls to who gets in but no such security arrangements in a private residence. Sensitive information needs adequate protection against unauthorized disclosure so how is working on sensitive information at home justified?
11 posted on 01/18/2025 2:57:48 PM PST by Starboard
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