Jeff Merkley And Mike Crapo Clash On The Senate Floor Debating Amendment For Government Funding Bill

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Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) spoke about an amendment on the government funding bill.

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00:00Colleagues, let me keep this very simple.

00:04We provided a lot of funding in the Inflation Reduction Act so that those who have very

00:08sophisticated finances and very powerful advisors that try to avoid ever paying their taxes

00:16don't get away with it.

00:18Because it's a fundamental fairness all across America.

00:25Ordinary working people have the money taken out of their paychecks every week just because

00:29people have enormous paychecks and fancy consultants shouldn't be that they get licensed

00:35to cheat.

00:36And all of that money went to make sure that those upper income folks knew that somebody

00:42might be taking a look at their finances.

00:48If this amendment fails, it will increase the deficit by $46 billion.

00:52So I hope all of you who are fiscally responsible and care about fundamental fairness to workers

00:57across America will vote for this amendment.

01:04Senator from Idaho.

01:05Mr. President, this isn't about saving $46 billion, it's about spending $46 billion,

01:10it's about saving $20 billion.

01:12The Democrats' partisan, supersized IRS funding is something we've been battling over for

01:17a couple of years now.

01:19It's a textbook example of the type of out-of-control spending that President Trump and Republicans

01:24have rightly opposed.

01:26Rather than working together to help the IRS solve its massive taxpayer service and IT

01:31shortcomings, the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act went to fund untargeted and heavily-handed

01:37enforcement improvement.

01:39As I mentioned at the time, the last thing hard-working Americans need is an IRS funding

01:44bloat that disproportionately hurts them.

01:49I urge my colleagues to vote against this amendment to provide the IRS nearly two times

01:54its entire annual budget in unaccountable enforcement dollars.

Jeff Merkley And Mike Crapo Clash On The Senate Floor Debating Amendment For Government Funding Bill

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