IRS moves to hire 8,000 employees after DOGE cuts, memo reveals

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

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The Internal Revenue Service has received special permission to quickly hire 8,000 employees through September, according to a memo obtained by NOTUS, after more than a quarter of the agency was downsized during Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts last year.

Trump administration officials had initially brushed off concerns that the IRS would struggle to handle the 2026 tax season with significantly fewer employees. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told lawmakers in April the agency was “still able to maintain current services and implement new initiatives.”

IRS chief Frank Bisignano also told members of the Senate Finance Committee in April that it had been “the most successful filing season in IRS history.” However, according to the February memo, seen by NOTUS, the IRS asked the Treasury Department for special authority to hire 8,000 employees on an expedited basis – indicating the agency knew it needed more support, despite officials' public comments.

The agency was eventually approved for the special project under “direct hire authority,” which allows agencies to circumvent traditional hiring processes when “there is a severe shortage of candidates or a critical hiring need.” The Independent has asked the IRS and Office of Personnel Management for comment.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/irs-moves-to-hire-8-000-employees-after-doge-cuts-memo-reveals/ar-AA25vOIO

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Link to NOTUS REPORT - The IRS Cut Staff. Now It’s Rushing to Hire Thousands.

[Lovie777]

1. More unqualified persons?..................

[enough]

2. Unqualified and Trump-loyal.

[wolfie001]

4. Yep

More christo-fascist white folk.....AKA: Nazis.

[COL Mustard]

12. That's what Schedule F is all about (Now known as Schedule P/C)...

I had to put three people on that this past week. These are all career civil service employees who don't deserve what is being done to them. Our agency had a total of about 35, from what I was told.

[wolfie001]

3. fat orange imbecile clown show

Every day more stupidity, nonsense and hatred. "Thanks" to all the stupid fuckers who voted for this shit.

[mdbl]

5. They need to hire back the agents to nickle and dime the bottom 20%

Of course, the major fraud, such as Pres Dump and his companies and all his pardons won't be looked at.

[marble falls]

6. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! First they audit the living shit out of TACO and Eloon Mush.

[RussBLib]

7. Thanks for nothing, DOGE

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Shit, who thought it was a great idea to take a frikkin’ meat cleaver to the government? Oh yeah, the Ketamine Kid, the richest spoiled brat in the world.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[Bayard]

9. I was sure cost effective

[Scrivener7]

8. Frank Bisignano lied??? Shocked, I tell you. Unless you take a look at Fiserve, the company he pillaged

before he took the IRS job. The Fiserve stock dropped about 75% under the new (honest) CEO who took over from him and had to reveal just what bad shape the company was in.

[twodogsbarking]

10. The Jan 6 tourists start work on Monday.

[llmart]

11. The same thing is happening at NASA.

Eloon and the Pedo cut 20% of the experienced engineers and now Dumbo decided in order to meet any deadlines for Artemis III they need to hire "more experienced engineers". You can't make this shit up. First they let the experienced ones go and now they cry they don't have enough experienced engineers.

[Devilsun]

13. Like an idiot, i did my own taxes last year

I made a mistake and the IRS sent me a notice to correct the mistake. I tried calling them to clarify something. I was on hold for over an hour and never wad able to speak to a human being. The website they instructed me to use to correct my mistake was basically useless. Im sure tRumps cronies are profiting of all of it.

[Martin68]

14. DOGE was a colossal waste of money, time, and experience.

[Thomas Hurt]

15. Only sniveling toadies need apply...

[BumRushDaShow]

16. Congrats on 14,000 posts!

Giving you my famous happy dance!

[Stargazer99]

17. Don't be fooled as Trump let go many tax investors that audited the wealthy

and now adding more employees to audit the middle class as Republicans are spending our tax money like drunken sailors