FBI Controversy Fuels Republican Attacks on IRS – By Yuval Rosenberg and Michael Rainey (The Fiscal Times) / Aug 18, 2022
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FBI Search at Mar-a-Lago Fuels GOP Attacks on IRS
The FBI’s search last week of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate has helped fuel GOP attacks on Democrats’ newly passed Inflation Reduction Act and its $80 billion in additional funding for the Internal Revenue Service.
The Washington Post’s Mariana Sotomayor reports:
“[A]s Republicans work to find their message in the days after their standard-bearer’s Florida residence was searched by the FBI, the verbal attacks on federal law enforcement have become enmeshed with another talking point tied to a totally different issue: the idea that Democrats are supercharging a tax agency to surveil regular Americans.
“Both issues came to a head last week as House Republicans returned to Washington to vote against the Inflation Reduction Act days after the search at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property, riling up supporters by conjoining the two issues as examples of extreme federal government overreach by Democrats. …
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