09/04/2025

GOP Appropriators Slash IRS Budget by 23 Percent

The measure now heads to the full House for consideration

House Appropriations Committee Republicans advanced a Fiscal 2026 funding bill that would reduce the IRS budget to $9.5 billion — a 23 percent cut from current spending levels.

The measure, which now heads to the full House for consideration, goes further than the Trump administration’s own proposal in June, which recommended $9.8 billion for the agency in FY 2026.

Lawmakers also rejected the administration’s request for more than $850 million to hire 11,000 additional call center representatives and introduce new automation tools ahead of tax filing season.

House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-OK) said the bill “demands fiscal discipline and ends the Biden-era culture of progressive overreach and runaway bureaucracy… By rooting out waste and inefficiency, it ensures every taxpayer dollar is directed toward core federal missions.”

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