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Tom Price stated on June 29, 2012 in a television interview:

Sixteen thousand new Internal Revenue Service agents will be "empowered to enforce" the new health care legislation.

By Willoughby Mariano• July 10, 2012

Saxby Chambliss stated on March 28, 2011 in a letter to a constituent:

Says the Internal Revenue Service estimated it must hire "16,500 agents at a cost of $10 billion to the taxpayer" to enforce the federal health care overhaul.

By Willoughby Mariano• May 4, 2011

Facebook posts stated on August 11, 2022 in Facebook post:

“With the combined salary of the 87,000 new IRS Agents ($81,456 average annual salary), you could put a police officer ($55,117) in every public school in the nation (97,568) and still have 31,007 police officers or $1,709,012,819 left over.”

By Michael Majchrowicz• September 8, 2022

Scott Rigell stated on September 08, 2010 in a statment on his website:

"Congressman Nye voted against a bill which would have defunded the $5-10 billion" the IRS needed to implement health care legislation.

By Wes Hester• November 1, 2010

Ron Johnson stated on August 07, 2022 in News release:

"Last year the IRS audited Americans earning less than $25,000 a year at five times the rate of other groups."

By D.L. Davis• August 25, 2022

Tim Scott stated on August 10, 2022 in an interview on Fox News:

“The Congressional Budget Office says 90% of the revenue generated from the new IRS agents will come from people making less than $200,000 … and the revenue generated will be $300-plus billion.”

By Jon Greenberg• August 17, 2022

Jon Huntsman stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.:

"The IRS is already planning on 19,500 new employees to administer" Obama’s health care mandate.

By Maryalice Gill• October 13, 2011

Facebook posts stated on August 29, 2022 in a Facebook page:

The IRS is hiring 87,000 new agents to police people who will owe more federal tax after having their student loans forgiven.

By Luiz Romero• August 31, 2022

Rick Scott stated on August 16, 2022 in a press release:

The IRS is adding 87,000 new agents, making the IRS “larger than (the) Pentagon, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Customs and Border Protection and the State Department combined.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Sara Swann• August 17, 2022

Instagram posts stated on August 13, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Kamala Harris voted in favor of passing a law in 2022 to tax tips.

By Sofia Ahmed• August 15, 2024

Martha McSally stated on November 17, 2015 in a news conference:

The United States has "10,000 IRS agents making sure that you don't take an improper charity deduction," but to fight terrorism, it has "less than two dozen people focusing on countering violent extremism at home."

By Tom Kertscher• November 25, 2015

Ben Cline stated on August 12, 2022 in a statement.:

A new Democratic law “will make the IRS workforce larger than the Pentagon, FBI, State Department, and Customs and Border Patrol, combined.”

By Warren Fiske, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Sara Swann• August 24, 2022

Joe Manchin stated on August 28, 2022 in a tweet:

“WV families making less than $400K & small businesses will NOT be targeted by the IRS.”

By Amanda Boring• October 18, 2022

Gerry Connolly stated on September 08, 2015 in radio interview.:

"It's estimated we leave somewhere north of $350 billion a year - that's billion - a year on the table uncollected because IRS doesn't have the resources."

By Sean Gorman• October 5, 2015

Association of Mature American Citizens stated on November 10, 2012 in a direct mail letter:

"If you and I fail to defund ObamaCare now, some 16,000 new IRS agents will be begin prying into our private medical records, eyeing each and every one of our treatments and prescriptions for "violations’."

By John Hill• December 2, 2012

Mark Kirk stated on March 21, 2010 in a floor speech in the House:

"According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the IRS would need to hire over 16,000 people ... to audit the American people and impose the new taxes and mandates" of the health care bill.

By Louis Jacobson• March 29, 2010

Donald Trump stated on August 23, 2024 in a speech in Las Vegas:

“Kamala cast the tiebreaking vote to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to go after your tip income.”

By Amy Sherman• August 28, 2024

Bob Good stated on August 10, 2022 in a tweet.:

“Democrats are voting to add an army of 87,000 IRS agents who will target middle class taxpayers and conduct at least 1 million more audits each year. ”

By Warren Fiske, Jon Greenberg• August 17, 2022

Karl Racine stated on June 12, 2017 in a press conference:

"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, whose government has important business and policy before the president of the United States, has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at the Trump International Hotel."

By Smitha Rajan• June 19, 2017

Facebook posts stated on July 20, 2020 in a text post:

“Portland goon squads were Blackwater contractors not federal officers.”

By Daniel Funke• July 29, 2020

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