THE CLAIMS: Budd says in the ad from his campaign that President Joe Biden “spent recklessly” and “now he wants 87,000 more IRS agents to cover his tab,” saying they would “harass small businesses and working people.”
Similarly, the narrator in the ad from the Senate Leadership Fund says Beasley “wants an army of IRS agents auditing the middle class.”
THE FACTS: Neither the IRS nor any other federal agency
has said anything about hiring that many agents or unleashing audits on everyday Americans.
“Speaking from a rational point of view, there’s not 87,000 people sitting around and waiting for the IRS to hire them,” said Nathan Goldman, an assistant professor at the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University and an expert on taxation.
It was a hypothetical number that came from a
Treasury Department report in May 2021 that included a proposal of what the IRS could do with another $80 billion in funding.
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