At what point does the Trump administration go from trimming fat to cutting to the bone?
The IRS could shed up to half of its 90,000-person workforce, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. This would be on top of the 7,000 workers it already fired last month.
President Donald Trump and his newly created Department of Government Efficiency, led by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, have taken a chainsaw to the workforce at nearly every government agency. As the AP pointed out, the administration has let go of nearly all probationary federal employees. It has also completely shuttered the foreign-aid agency USAID, a move the US Supreme Court recently rejected.
As the New York Times pointed out, it’s unclear when the latest IRS firings will take place. The agency is in the midst of its busy season.
The IRS did not immediately respond to CFO Brew’s request for comment.
The administration also offered IRS staff a chance to resign under the Office of Personnel Management’s so-called “deferred resignation” plan earlier this year. But the agency told workers they would not be permitted to do that until a month after the tax filing deadline.
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