'87,000 IRS agents' is a zombie lie

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from WaPo:

‘87,000 IRS agents’ is the zombie falsehood setting the House agenda

“Our very first bill will repeal the funding for 87,000 new IRS agents.”
— House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), in remarks on the floor, Jan. 7

“THIS WEEK—The House Republican Majority will move to pass legislation to:
-Defund the 87,000 new IRS agents.”
— House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), in a tweet, Jan. 8

Republicans took charge of the House of Representatives this week — and put forward as their first act a bill that is based on a repeatedly debunked falsehood.

We call these “zombie claims” because they keep rising from the dead no matter how often they have been fact-checked. But we haven’t before witnessed such a roundly criticized claim set the agenda for a new Congress. On Monday night, on a party-line vote of 221-210, the House approved a bill stripping $71 billion in funding from the Internal Revenue Service. (It has no chance of passage in the Senate, and President Biden has promised a veto.)

read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/10/87000-irs-agents-is-zombie-falsehood-setting-house-agenda/

[underpants]

1. Did the read the Constitution out loud yet?

I mean, that was a BIG THING for them.

[Walleye]

2. They have their lawyers checking out the constitution for loopholes

[Jerry2144]

4. I thought they were looking at the abridged version

You know, the one that says, “It’s legal if done by a Republican.”

[lark]

3. It was just another ploy, they don't give one shit about the constitution.

They actively are trying to destroy it and us so the rich own every single thing and we are nothing more than serfs, living in poverty and misery.

[bigtree]

5. under review

...several passages being considered by GOP for banning.

[Chainfire]

7. They are performing for their audience, it has nothing to do with actual governing.