In absolutely huge news for American taxpayers, an internal document from the Trump Administration has revealed that over 20,000 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents are poised to accept President Trump’s resignation offer and leave, which would mean 20% of the IRS resigning. The news comes alongside President Trump’s reported plan to cut 40% of its workforce.
Reporting on the matter, NBC News noted that the Trump IRS is planning on cutting around 40% of its workforce after this year’s tax season is wrapped up. If that is achieved, it would mean the much-detested government bureaucracy going from around 102,000 employees to around 60,000 employees.
As part of that plan to cut the number of agents, the Trump Administration has given the IRS bureaucrats a buyout offer that would pay them into September if they agree to resign now, something that would avoid the often difficult federal firing process and immediately get rid of tens of thousands of agents.
Adding impetus to the desire of some agents to resign is that the IRS is, according to a memo obtained and reported on by the Federal News Network, planning on beginning to send out bi-weekly Reduction in Force (RIF) notices as soon as this week, which would mean layoffs without the generous terms of the resignation offer.
The plan is, reportedly, for the RIF process to include two stages and for the IRS to target extremely severe cuts in some of its offices, with the Federal News Network noting that the memo provided that “taxpayer services and compliance will need to be trimmed.” So, agents have quite the reason to resign voluntarily rather than wait for an all but certain layoff.
That’s not all. Also reportedly on the chopping block for quite high levels of layoffs and cuts are, the Federal News Network reports, “the IRS Taxpayer Experience Office, Transformation Strategy Office, Online Services Office and Office of Civil Rights.” So, employees of those offices could be more likely to take the Trump resignation offer and just leave, rather than try to stick it out.
Commenting on the matter to NBC News, a spokesperson for the Treasury Department explained and justified the cuts, explaining that the Biden Administration overhired, saying, “The roll back of wasteful Biden-era hiring surges, and consolidation of critical support functions are vital to improve both efficiency and quality of service.”
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Continuing, the spokesperson noted that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant is focused on making the IRS more efficient, which will mean heavy cuts in personnel, saying, “The Secretary is committed to ensuring that efficiency is realized while providing the collections, privacy, and customer service the American people deserve.”
These cuts and resignations come on top of already heavy cuts to the IRS. According to the New York Times, which reported on the matter on Tuesday, April 15, there have already been over 12,000 IRS agents who have resigned or been laid off since President Trump entered office in January, making the new cuts all the more impressive.
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