The IRS is slashing 25% of its workforce—around 20,000 employees—as the Trump administration moves to dismantle the agency permanently.
This drastic cut, reported by Fox News late Friday, follows a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) probe into waste and fraud that began nearly two months ago at IRS headquarters, signaling the end of a bloated bureaucracy.
The layoffs, set to start Friday and continue through next week, mark a seismic shift for the federal agency.
Initiated after DOGE officials targeted inefficiencies and corruption, this reduction is a key step in streamlining operations as the administration prepares to shutter the IRS for good.
Discernreport.com reports: Most job cuts will center around the IRS Office of Civil Rights and Compliance, which protects taxpayers from discrimination, audits, and investigations.
White House spokesperson Liz Huston told Fox News >>>
In a stark contrast to the previous administration’s wildly unpopular plan to hire thousands of additional IRS agents, President Trump is focused on saving tax dollars, eliminating bloat, axing useless DEI offices, and increasing the agency’s efficiency.
In addition to the layoffs, the agency said in a letter to employees that it is eliminating its Office of Civil Rights and Compliance, which is responsible for protecting taxpayers from discrimination, audits and investigations.
This action is being taken to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the IRS in accordance with agency priorities and the Workforce Optimization Initiative outlined in a recent Executive Order, the letter states.
While referring to President Donald Trump’s executive order directing the Department of Government Efficiency to get rid of wasteful spending.
The rollback of wasteful Biden-era hiring surges and consolidation of critical support functions are vital to improving both efficiency and quality of service.
The Secretary is committed to ensuring that efficiency is realized while providing the collections, privacy, and customer service the American people deserve.
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10 billion doesn’t go far with today’s inflated housing costs. By the time you buy a townhouse and a country retreat a beach shack and a holiday home and set aside the taxes maintenance staff wages and decorating costs for each you’ve not much left.
This tells me that hyperinflation is on its way and then cashless society. The tax revenue will be gotten by transaction fees that will automatically taken when you purchase something on your smart phone. there will be no cash. Even if you loan a friend 10 bucks digitally a percentage will be taken out when you transfer digits from you phone to his phone, when he pays you back he will pay a percentage again. People, there is no way that they will allow the IRS to be disbanded without a trade, and a cashless society will be the trade.… Read more »
That is a horrible state of mind for those depicted from their basic human rights?