From NOTUS:
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called any concerns over the cuts to IRS staffing “a complete fallacy” in a testimony to Congress earlier this month.
Frank Bisignano, the IRS CEO, told lawmakers that the “pundits out there saying IRS is going to fail” as a result of sweeping staffing cuts are wrong. …
Internally, however, the agency is projecting an entirely different picture. While the Trump administration publicly stated that the IRS has suffered no ill effects from the staffing cuts, the agency was sounding the alarm that it would be unable to handle tax season, requesting special permission to hire thousands of employees on an expedited basis.
The IRS ultimately requested, and received, special authority to hire 8,000 employees on an expedited basis, according to an internal memorandum obtained by NOTUS.
The agency has “seen massive cuts to its staff in 2025 through workforce reduction initiatives” and “ongoing staffing shortages put the 2026 Filing Season at risk,” Alex Kweskin, the agency’s top human-resources official, said in the late-February memo to the Treasury Department that was later passed on to the Office of Personnel Management. …
I don't know, man, they just keep showing those same three phony baloney graphs that show how great everything is and how all the numbers are going down.
ReplyDeleteFrank learned to love those suspect graphs from his boss. 🤡
DeleteTwo different mindsets at the IRS and SSA leadership. Money is coming into the IRS while at SSA it’s flowing out. The administrations mindset toward SSA is to starve the beast by cutting funding.
ReplyDeleteNo internal memo on additional staffing will exist at SSA since the end goal is to privatize the agency.
ReplyDeleteWhen catastrophes occur, just deny it until you get questioned by Republicans, then blame it all on Biden, and they'll be satisfied.
ReplyDeleteI would love to help since I’ve got 20 years experience and a current security clearance but Elon Musk told me I was lazy, said we had to reduce head count and threatened to fire me so I retired early. Kinda dumb to need new hires to meet required Agency goals when u just let so many go last year. Like maybe they don’t know what they are doing...
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that matters in this story is the sentence → "The IRS ultimately requested, and received, special authority to hire 8,000 employees on an expedited basis, according to an internal memorandum obtained by NOTUS." -- the same at HHS, SSA, IRS, etc. Someone needs to unwind the DOGE costs to the Federal workforce -- paying high-graded senior employees to sit at home for a full year, reassignment of employees to entirely new functions that take years to learn, and the losses in productivity due to reorganizations, lack of strategy, and complete chaos. Elon Musk and his DOGE Billionaire cronies should be held personally liable for the complete financial mismanagement of the Federal Government over the past 16 months. Hard to imagine how the Federal workforce will withstand 31 more months of this.
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