Two House Democrats facing tough re-election bids are defending their party's expansion of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that was included in the Sen. Joe Manchin-backed Inflation Reduction Act, which does little to immediately address inflation.
The two vulnerable Democratic congresswomen, Rep. Katie Porter of California and Rep. Cindy Axne of Iowa, are defending the Inflation Reduction Act and their votes in favor of the measure that will grant an $80 billion boost to the IRS over a 10-year period, with more than half of the funds intended to help the agency crack down on tax evasion.
The billions of dollars for the IRS from the measure, which was signed into law on Tuesday by President Biden, will go toward filling 87,000 IRS positions, more than doubling the agency's current size.
