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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Day 2 of Winning.
Houscleaning
“halted all federal government hiring”
This is how you make DOGE work.
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
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.
For decades something even close to this was unthinkable.
I love it!!!!!!
Go Don go!
Great. I want massive retirements!
Stopped hiring.
Requiring in-person work at the office.
Stopped new positions.
Fired 1,000 Whitehouse staffers.
THE WINNING!!!
NOT TIRED YET!!!
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.
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.
I bet the IRS ignores the order.
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!
Already done. Those funds will be transfered to Border Patrol
There should be 72,000 pistols going up as government surplus. We should see if President Trump can give us a deal.
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.
I expect the “back to the office” order will result in a lot of people quitting.
I wish they would hire someone to answer the phone.
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