According to Axios, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) fired dozens of Denver employees on Thursday and launched a broader purging of the agency’s workforce.

From 120 to 150 Denver IRS workers, most of which were trial versions, were fired in multiple departments, including Collection and Tax Compliance, Patricia Allen and Chapter Chairman of the National Treasury Employees Union. I said Outlet. The layoff follows Trump’s instructions to reduce the federal workforce through Elon Musk’s government efficiency (DOGE), which is also tasked with identifying and freeing up wasteful federal spending. (Related: Howard Lutnick shares Trump’s plan to x IRS and move tax burdens to “outsiders”)

“I’ve been in the IRS for 20 years and have never seen this kind of layoff, Allen told the outlet.

thank you @doge How to audit the IRS?

– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 4, 2025

Some laid back workers reportedly had an early morning closing, but others were waiting for the email they had expected, so they said 30 minutes to open the facility. It will give you. More than 6,000 IRS employees face layoffs in the agency’s first cut round. It has been reported.

Musk initially urged him to look into the IRS and its spending program by attempting to access the agency’s payment system over the weekend and submit it to a coalition of union groups. Litigation against the Trump administration on Monday.

The world’s wealthiest characterizes the US bureaucracy as a troublesome obstacle to the will of American citizens, and the substantial cuts in unelected federal government are the result of voters, elected representatives and federal policies. It claims that it means there are few intermediaries standing in between.

“What does democracy actually mean when bureaucrats are in charge? People are unable to vote and are determined by elected representatives in the form of the President, Senate and House of Representatives. In the case, we don’t live in democracy. We live in bureaucracy,” Musk said at a recent Oval Office press conference. He also emphasized the importance of dealing with the federal deficit, saying, “If we don’t do anything about this deficit, the country will be in bankruptcy.”

But Democrats argue that federal personnel delivery could lead to “bad chaos” in tax refunds and other taxpayer services just weeks before the April 15 submission deadline.

“The mandated layoffs and further reductions as a result of Elon Musk’s unprecedented power grabs will freeze this employment freeze, delaying refunds and degrading taxpayer services. Mark Warner Senator Mark Warner, argued Tuesday by the Senator and several Democrat colleagues, will create serious financial difficulties for people across the country.” press release.

The IRS faces an uncertain future under Trump. Howard Lutnick, Commerce Secretary I said Jesse of Fox News wuttered on Wednesday that the president’s “goal” was to abolish the agency and instead “have to pay all outsiders.”

“His goal is very simple: to abolish it – his goal is to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and have all outsiders pay,” Lutnick said. “I mean, this is someone who is focused on America.”

Lutnick’s comments match Trump’s recent rhetoric on the IRS. The president has repeatedly proposed replacing federal income taxes with higher tariffs, with the “richest period in US history” between 1870 and 1913, when federal revenues came mainly from tariffs. It claims it happened in between.

“There was no income tax. Income tax occurred in 1913… Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign countries, we would tax foreign countries to enrich citizens. “The president said in January. speech In Florida. “You know, the United States from 1870 to 1913 – all the tariffs. And it was, relatively speaking, the richest time in US history.”

Trump also proposed creating an “external revenue service” before taking office to highlight the generation of revenue from tariffs rather than income taxes.

The IRS has long been the subject of criticism and scrutiny of conservatives, especially after the agency. admitted to fraud To use “enhanced scrutiny and extraordinary delays” that prevented tax exemption applications from conservative groups in 2017. Americans think they are less favorable than other federal agencies. Opinion survey Found in July.

Also, conservatives have corned the agency after former President Joe Biden approved the employment of 87,000 new IRS employees in the decade of 2022. Biden and Congressional Democrats greened the additional $80 billion agency funding that year and bolstered new employee enforcement efforts to encourage new employee enforcement efforts. Inflation Reduction Act, Republicans with increasing budgets quickly pulled their nails back. (Related: Biden fired $80,000,000,000 for IRS enforcement. Congress has already revoked half of that.)

The Treasury Department and the IRS did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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