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BREAKING: President Trump Orders Hiring Freeze on IRS
100 Percent Fed Up ^ | January 21, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 01/21/2025 9:32:00 AM PST by Red Badger

As part of his Day One agenda, President Trump used his clemency powers to place a hiring freeze on the IRS, preventing them from taking on any new employees, at least temporarily.

Along with the hiring freeze, President Trump signed an Executive Order requiring all federal workers working remotely to return to in-office work.

Take a look:

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The reason for this move is most likely due to budgeting constrains and wasteful government spending concerns.

Along with the IRS hiring freeze, President Trump halted all federal government hiring in order to ensure that only the best and brightest are brought on moving forward.

From Barron’s:

Trump signed a bevy of orders related to cutting government spending during his speech at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. Among those, according to Trump, is an action ordering federal workers to return to office. He also signed an order that freezes government hiring “to ensure we’re only hiring competent people,” as well as a freeze on hiring new Internal Revenue Service agents. He also suggested that recently hired IRS agents could be repurposed to other roles.

Trump and his allies have made big promises about cutting federal spending by trillions of dollars. Unions representing federal workers say that some of the assertions are overblown, saying that most federal workers already work from the office and disputing the new administration’s ability to unilaterally cut workers without Congressional approval.

Bloomberg Tax added more details:

The Trump administration’s new hiring freeze across the federal workforce will stay in effect for the IRS even after the order expires for all other agencies.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday freezing hiring across the government. Positions that were vacant as of Monday can’t be filled and no new positions can be created.

This memorandum will remain in effect for the IRS until the secretary of the Treasury Department with the director of the Office of Management and Budget and the administrator of the new United States DOGE Service determines that it is in the “national interest to lift the freeze.”

All the same, the news is adding fuel to the rumors that President Trump may intend to shut the IRS down completely …

It might be a good idea to wait on your tax return and see what transpired between here and Spring…

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: doge; hiring; irs; labor
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1 posted on 01/21/2025 9:32:00 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Day 2 of Winning.


2 posted on 01/21/2025 9:32:37 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Red Badger

3 posted on 01/21/2025 9:33:57 AM PST by freedomlover
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To: Army Air Corps

Houscleaning


4 posted on 01/21/2025 9:33:59 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Red Badger

“halted all federal government hiring”

This is how you make DOGE work.


5 posted on 01/21/2025 9:34:15 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: Red Badger

good,
now whut the damned bloodsucking agency down and transfer staff to do useful work instead of weakening America

like help build the border fence or whatever else helps USA


6 posted on 01/21/2025 9:35:05 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Red Badger

Good!
And those 72,000 IRS agents Biden hired to harass conservatives should be fired or at least transferred - maybe have them go down and help guard the border.


7 posted on 01/21/2025 9:35:26 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Army Air Corps

For decades something even close to this was unthinkable.

I love it!!!!!!

Go Don go!


8 posted on 01/21/2025 9:36:32 AM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: Army Air Corps

Great. I want massive retirements!


9 posted on 01/21/2025 9:39:34 AM PST by vaskypilot
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To: cgbg

Stopped hiring.

Requiring in-person work at the office.

Stopped new positions.

Fired 1,000 Whitehouse staffers.

THE WINNING!!!

NOT TIRED YET!!!


10 posted on 01/21/2025 9:42:30 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Trump should call Traitor General Milley back into service and bust him to private.)
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To: libertylover

Good!
And those 72,000 IRS agents Biden hired to harass conservatives should be fired or at least transferred - maybe have them go down and help guard the border.

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They’d get in the way and be worthless.


11 posted on 01/21/2025 9:42:34 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possiWe neve hear of gambling paying off $billioble.)
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To: Army Air Corps
adding fuel to the rumors that President Trump may intend to shut the IRS down completely …

I like those rumors.

The US tax code is a dense hairball of special interests, corruption and political favoritism built up over many decades. It's designed for cronies and oligarchs to game. It's so complex, the IRS itself can't manage it. My company has constant issues where IRS has made mistakes, and can't fix them in a timely manner, leading to months and even years of time chasing them on it.

We need radical simplification of the tax code, as well as elimination of the IRS.

12 posted on 01/21/2025 9:42:49 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Red Badger

I bet the IRS ignores the order.


13 posted on 01/21/2025 9:44:53 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Red Badger

I wonder how all the lefties whose heads have been exploding for twenty four hours now feel about that stolen election four years ago? Back WITH A VENGEANCE!


14 posted on 01/21/2025 9:49:12 AM PST by TalBlack (Time to use the Law and the Power. Good luck Mr. President.)
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To: laplata; libertylover

Already done. Those funds will be transfered to Border Patrol


15 posted on 01/21/2025 9:51:47 AM PST by Cold Heart (Government for moral and religious people. Democrat party is neither )
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To: laplata

There should be 72,000 pistols going up as government surplus. We should see if President Trump can give us a deal.


16 posted on 01/21/2025 9:53:07 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Dark Days are over. We don't want your criminals. Stop sending your scum to America!)
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To: Cold Heart

Take it down to a flat 1% and fire them all.

Make up the missing revenue with spending cuts, tariffs and big sin taxes on weed/liquor.

Problem solved.
The 1% will be reduced to nothing with a new amendment 5-10 years down the road.


17 posted on 01/21/2025 9:54:21 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Red Badger
All the same, the news is adding fuel to the rumors that President Trump may intend to shut the IRS down completely …

It might be a good idea to wait on your tax return and see what transpired between here and Spring…


That's a nice fantasy, but I don't believe it would be a good idea for anyone to wait too long to have their tax returns prepared. We're not getting rid of income tax that easily or that quickly.
18 posted on 01/21/2025 9:57:04 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Red Badger

I expect the “back to the office” order will result in a lot of people quitting.


19 posted on 01/21/2025 10:01:31 AM PST by randita
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To: Red Badger

I wish they would hire someone to answer the phone.


20 posted on 01/21/2025 10:01:37 AM PST by Raycpa
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