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Statement·other·said 2022-08-16

“Adding 87,000 IRS agents would make the agency larger than the Pentagon, FBI, CBP, and State Department combined.”

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Verdict
Mixedby PolitiFact
2022-08-17
Reasoning

Those four agencies employ roughly 199,000; even with all 87,000 IRS hires the agency would still be ~34,000 smaller, and hires were phased over a decade against expected retirements.

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