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FIRST ON FOX: A Texas Republican congressman led a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) concerning the company’s ammunition stockpile.
Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, despatched the letter with a number of of his colleagues to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig on Friday in regards to the company’s acquire of $700,000 value of ammunition because the company is ready to get billions of greenbacks in investment for tax enforcement.
“If the Department of Justice will politically target President Trump and raid his home, I can assure you that the current Administration is willing to target his supporters,” Cloud advised Fox News Digital.
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Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, speaks all through the Freedom Caucus press convention on immigration out of doors the Capitol on March 17, 2021.
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“With a possible 87,000 new agents at the IRS, I have serious concerns as to how this agency could be weaponized against law-abiding Americans who oppose the far-left ideology of this Administration,” he endured. “The IRS has politically targeted Americans before, we can’t let it happen again.”
In the letter, Cloud and his colleagues famous “the justification” for the Inflation Reduction Act “is to identify and investigate tax cheats,” however stated they “are concerned that the power this bill gives to the IRS will be used to scare and threaten law-abiding Americans.”
“Proponents of the Inflation Reduction Act have highlighted the need for increased funding to better investigate tax evasion,” the letter reads. “The $80 billion being allocated to the IRS by Congress, however, is more than six times the current IRS budget of $12.6 billion. Of the $80 billion, $45.6 billion will be dedicated specifically to tax enforcement.
“Naturally, we’ve got issues over how this important sum of money will likely be spent through the IRS. The IRS got here below fireplace for getting just about $700,000 in ammunition originally of 2022,” the GOP lawmakers continued. “We needless to say this isn’t new, bearing in mind {that a} 2017 GAO Report discovered that the IRS has kind of 5 million rounds of ammunition and four,487 weapons.”
“We are involved, regardless that, with how the enforcement arm of the IRS will develop and if it may well be weaponized in opposition to the American other folks,” they added.
Cloud and the lawmakers posed 10 questions to Rettig, asking him “what number of” of the new 87,000 agents will come from law enforcement and how many agents are currently working remote.
The GOP lawmakers’ letter comes as the IRS is set to receive $80 billion over 10 years and 87,000 new agents from the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act.
The agency posted a job listing on Wednesday seeking applicants to become “prison investigation particular brokers.”
The role required applicants to be “prepared to make use of fatal power, if essential.”
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The job posting was briefly deleted by the agency and drew heated criticism online over the listing, although other law enforcement listings used similar language.
The IRS criminal investigations unit is the law enforcement arm of the agency and is the division that typically carries weapons.
