“Do you make $75,000 or less? Democrats’ new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you — with 710,000 new audits for Americans who earn less than $75k.”
What Washington Post found
The Biden administration is planning to hire 87,000 IRS employees over the next 10 years — not IRS audit agents. The audit figure lacks signficant context.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kevin McCarthy (House Minority Leader (R-Calif.)) made this claim around 9 August 2022. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 August 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
Kevin McCarthy has 34 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 20 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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