While the Biden Administration spent trillions of dollars in the name of “fighting the pandemic,” nearly half of those taxpayer dollars were improperly paid. Democrats have blocked commonsense solutions to prevent fraud and hold this Administration accountable.
Not only have Democrats ignored the real victims of fraud, but they’ve also supercharged the IRS with $80 billion to hire an army of agents to audit Main Street businesses and middle-class families – who they assume are tax cheats. By ending Democrats’ emergency spending, protecting middle-class earners from audits, and clawing back stolen taxpayer dollars, Republicans can deliver on our Commitment to America to hold the government accountable.
Repurpose Unspent COVID Funding to Fight Inflation and Shrink the Deficit.
- End Emergency Spending: Now that President Biden has said that the COVID-19 pandemic is over the emergency spending should end. End Democrats’ wasteful COVID slush funds that discouraged work, paid for golf course maintenance, and bailed out local governments and repurpose hundreds of billions of that money towards reducing the deficit and killing inflation.
- Block Audits of Middle-Class Americans: Republicans want to prevent the IRS from using its massive $80 billion infusion of taxpayer dollars to squeeze more revenue out of American taxpayers who earn less than $400,000 per year.
- Rescind the Funding for Democrats’ Army of Auditors and Focus on Improving the IRS: Republicans would rescind the Biden Administration’s funding for new IRS agents while preserving funding for customer service and IT modernization.
- Claw Back Stolen Taxpayer Dollars: Republicans want to claw back federal funds and pursue recovery of fraudulent payments by ensuring aggressive identification, investigation, and prosecution of criminal fraud in pandemic unemployment programs.
- Prevent Further Fraud and Protect Taxpayers: Republicans aren’t just focused on recovering lost taxpayer dollars, but also on preventing fraud from taking place in the future. Republicans have solutions to prevent fraud in COVID unemployment programs, recover fraudulently paid benefits, and provide relief for taxpayers and victims of unemployment fraud.
