'Going After People That The Government Doesn't Like': Ron DeSantis Issues Warning About New IRS Agents
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr While presenting infrastructure funding to Lucie County, Florida, on Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) slammed President Biden's economic and energy policies and the hiring of tens of thousands of new IRS agents. Do watch here: Talking about the IRS agents DeSantis said: They also authorized 87,000 new IRS agents, and those IRS agents are going to be mobilized to go after people that the government doesn't like. This is not something where they're only going to be going after billionaires. In fact, billionaires all have accountants and lawyers. They're going to be going after people who are not going to be able to defend themselves against these audits. And you know, they actually proposed an amendment when this was being debated in the US senate saying this should not be any of these agents' audits under 400,000 a year and the democrats voted that down. They did not want to protect Americans earning less t