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The ‘Weaponized’ IRS, Equipped With 87,000 New Agents, Will Set Its Sights on Conservatives, Christian Non-Profits: Expert Warns

With the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” poised to pass the House of Representatives on Friday, Conservative and Christian organizations are sounding an alarm, warning that the Bill will be used to further “weaponize the IRS.”

The Bill, H.R. 5376, which passed in the Senate down party lines in a 50-51 vote, among other things, will add 87,000 new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents to the federal agencies’ payroll “in an effort to raise $124 billion in new revenue through enhanced ‘enforcement’ actions, such as audits,” according to the Washington Stand.

“The act would heavily inflate the number of IRS audits performed — and critics warn the majority will fall on people of faith, and limited means, who oppose the president’s policies,” Washington Stand Editor, Ben Johnson, reported.

Family Research Council senior director of Government Affairs, Quena González, in an interview on Thursday, expressed his concern, underscoring that “Conservatives and conservative organizations like [FRC] know that the IRS has been weaponized in the past to come after us ideologically.”

“The IRS initially denied a Christian organization their tax-exempt status, because they mentioned biblical teachings on their application,” González described. “There’s a prior history of the IRS of targeting tax-exempt groups for additional scrutiny based on their perceived political affiliation.”

 

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