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“… The announcement Wednesday included a list of 16 senior executives who are departing the agency, including experienced top leadership in the offices of Response and Recovery, Mission Support, Procurement, Resilience, Grants, and Professional Responsibility, along with the agency’s second in command, MaryAnn Tierney. Many of them accepted DOGE voluntary buyouts amid the plummeting morale at the agency.

… Roughly 10% of FEMA’s staff have left since January, and the agency is projected to lose close to 30% of its workforce by the end of the year, according to a FEMA official briefed on the numbers. During a call last week, Richardson told the agency that more steep staffing cuts are expected in the months ahead.

… With Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at the helm, DHS has exerted extraordinary control over FEMA since Trump took office.

She fired Trump’s first acting FEMA administrator, Cameron Hamilton, this month after he broke from other administration officials when he told lawmakers he does not believe eliminating FEMA is in the best interest of the American people.

Richardson – a former Marine combat veteran and martial-arts instructor – has promised to enforce President Trump’s agenda. In an all-hands meeting on his first day at FEMA, Richardson told agency staff he will “run right over” anyone who tries to prevent him from carrying out the president’s mission.

“FEMA is part of the Department of Homeland Security, and don’t forget that,” Richardson told staff. “I, and I alone, speak for FEMA. I am the president’s representative at FEMA, and I am here to carry out President Trump’s intent.”

In a memo issued Wednesday that was obtained by CNN, Richardson officially rescinded FEMA’s 2022-2026 strategic plan, saying it “contains goals and objectives that bear no connection to FEMA accomplishing its mission.” The memo states a new 2026-2030 strategy will be developed this summer, though it does not mention a plan for the months ahead….”
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The last time FEMA leaned heavily into homeland security was between 2001 and 2005. Then Katrina happened. After a bipartisan Congressional investigation, the Post Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act was passed and signed into law to ensure that such a massive failure never happened again. Yet here we are.
 
ZZLPHeels said:
Yup, there's no way that Lincoln and Reagan are still alive.
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Yes, of course. I meant the existence of that picture, on the wall, in the WH. It can't be real.... I hope it's not real.
 
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ZZLPHeels said:
I still have yet to see a single case of an American ever being “hunted down” by an IRS agent. Why do you support tax fraud?
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I'm not advocating tax fraud. I'm wondering why the dems would pass legislation to hire that many irs agents, and worry about peoples venmo transactions.
 
  • The IRS estimated the gross tax gap for tax year 2022 to be $696 billion.
  • After accounting for late payments and enforcement, the net tax gap for 2022 was projected to be $606 billion.
  • For tax years 2014 through 2016, the average annual gross tax gap was estimated at $496 billion, representing 15% of the true tax liability.

  • Limited IRS Resources: Insufficient funding and staffing can hamper the IRS's ability to enforce tax laws and conduct audits effectively.
  • Underreporting of Business Income: Income from pass-through entities (e.g., sole proprietorships, partnerships) is often underreported due to less third-party verification.
 
By cutting so many IRS agents it makes it easier for people like Trump to commit tax fraud, which is why so many of them have been let go. We had that many IRS agents because that's how many were needed for the agency to properly do its job. Sharply cut those numbers and it gets a lot harder. As usual Trumpers are asking the wrong question - it's not why did Democrats want so many IRS agents, it's why do Republicans want to slash their numbers so much.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
By cutting so many IRS agents it makes it easier for people like Trump to commit tax fraud, which is why so many of them have been let go. We had that many IRS agents because that's how many were needed for the agency to properly do its job. Sharply cut those numbers and it gets a lot harder. As usual Trumpers are asking the wrong question - it's not why did Democrats want so many IRS agents, it's why do Republicans want to slash their numbers so much.
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Very misleading. The additional irs agents were added while the current staff was already 78,000. So the size practically doubled. It beome larger than some agencies combined. And the threshold for third party online payments before an audit was triggered was lowered to $600. Before it was 200 transactions and $20,000.
 
ZZLPHeels said:
They passed that legislation because the IRS was short hundreds of thousands of personnel, and as a result the federal government was unable to collect huge amounts of money that were owed to it.
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Lol, you're lying. It was never short hundreds of thousands! You're making things up.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
By cutting so many IRS agents it makes it easier for people like Trump to commit tax fraud, which is why so many of them have been let go. We had that many IRS agents because that's how many were needed for the agency to properly do its job. Sharply cut those numbers and it gets a lot harder. As usual Trumpers are asking the wrong question - it's not why did Democrats want so many IRS agents, it's why do Republicans want to slash their numbers so much.
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Meanwhile Joe Q Red State voter believes that IRS is going to be kicking down their door to cut open the mattresses and steal the $200 stashed in there for "tax evasion" when in reality they raised the standard deduction so high that your average tax payer doesn't even have the chance to cheat on their taxes in a way that isn't a rounding error to the IRS.
 
altmin said:
Meanwhile Joe Q Red State voter believes that IRS is going to be kicking down their door to cut open the mattresses and steal the $200 stashed in there for "tax evasion" when in reality they raised the standard deduction so high that your average tax payer doesn't even have the chance to cheat on their taxes in a way that isn't a rounding error to the IRS.
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Why were they worried about $600 venmo transactions?
 
Silence Dogood said:
Why were they worried about $600 venmo transactions?
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The agency, its mission and statutory authority | Internal Revenue Service

Review the IRS mission statement and statutory authority.
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The IRS mission​

Provide America's taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and enforce the law with integrity and fairness to all.

This mission statement describes our role and the public’s expectation about how we should perform that role.
  • In the United States, the Congress passes tax laws and requires taxpayers to comply.
  • The taxpayer’s role is to understand and meet his or her tax obligations.
  • The IRS role is to help the large majority of compliant taxpayers with the tax law, while ensuring that the minority who are unwilling to comply pay their fair share.
 
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