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FIRST ON FOX – Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., is introducing a measure that aims to redirect backing from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to money the hiring of much Border Patrol agents astatine the U.S.-Mexico border.
The bill, titled the "Diverting IRS Resources to the Exigent Crisis Today Act" oregon the "DIRECT Act," aims to "rescind definite balances made disposable to the Internal Revenue Service and redirect them to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection."
Specifically, the connection seeks to person "unobligated balances" appropriated oregon different made disposable to the IRS for "enforcement activities" nether national instrumentality alternatively spell to the CBP "for the salaries and expenses of caller agents and officers hired for the information of the confederate borderline of the United States," according to the bill's language. Tenney is reintroducing the 2023 measure to the recently sworn-in 119th Congress.
"The Biden-Harris medication has overseen the introduction of implicit 10 cardinal illegal immigrants into our country," Tenney said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "Yet, alternatively of prioritizing borderline information and supporting CBP agents, they focused connected sending the IRS to harass middle-class families. The DIRECT Act stops Biden's IRS service from launching audits of middle-class families and reinvests those funds to hiring further Customs and Border Protection agents to unafraid the Southern Border."
The congresswoman added: "As we modulation to the caller administration, it is captious to supply CBP agents with the further resources needed to unafraid our borders and deport amerciable immigrants, ensuring they tin efficaciously enactment President Trump's and Border Czar Homan's agenda."
Congress passed Biden's Inflation Reduction Act successful 2022 without immoderate enactment from Republicans. The bundle allocated astir $80 cardinal to the IRS, green-lighting the hiring of 87,000 caller IRS agents by 2035, including enforcement agents.
That stipulation became a flash-point contented for Republicans, including Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., who accused the Biden IRS of trying to "harass hard-working Americans."
Meanwhile, President-elect Donald Trump has chosen billionaire Elon Musk and chap entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to spearhead the recently developed Department of Government Efficiency, oregon DOGE. The nongovernmental task unit volition beryllium liable for uncovering ways to slash the national workforce, and ax programs and national regulations, arsenic portion of Trump's "Save America" docket for a 2nd term.
Trump announced connected Wednesday helium would found different caller agency, the External Revenue Service, to cod tariffs and different backing owed to the U.S. by overseas entities.
Incoming borderline czar Tom Homan, who similar Tenney is simply a autochthonal New Yorker, is tasked with delivering connected Trump's committedness of wide deportations of transgression amerciable immigrants and cause traffickers.
Tenney, who co-chaired the House Election Integrity Caucus amid the 2024 contention that ended successful Trump's victory, besides precocious re-introduced a measure that aims to rip national funds from states that let amerciable immigrants to clasp driver's licenses.
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