shrinking the IRS. From Marketplace, I'm Sabree Beneshore, in for David Brancacchu. The Trump

administration is reportedly working on a plan to dramatically reduce the workforce at the Internal

Revenue Service, as much as half the staff, the tax collecting agency, could be let go through a

combination of layoffs, buyouts, and attrition.

Marketplaces Nova Saffo has more.

The IRS employs about 90,000 workers across the country.

News of a potential halving of that workforce comes in the midst of the busy tax filing season.

It is an almost unimaginable scenario.

I think there's no scenario in which it doesn't endanger

the federal revenue. Vanessa Williamson is a senior fellow at the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center.

She says, if these cuts happen, Americans should expect noticeable impacts fairly quickly.

If you're an honest taxpayer who just wanted your question answered by the IRS, that's going to get a lot harder.

And if you have a complicated tax situation and fancy lawyers, the IRS is going to be far less able to make sure that you pay your fair share.

Under the Trump administration, the agency has already faced cuts of some 7,000 probationary employees, according to the Associated Press.

Meanwhile, the administration yesterday released a list of hundreds of federal buildings

it wants to close or sell, including an IRS computing center and several service centers.

I'm Novosafo for Marketplace.

It is spring break time, which is a busy travel season, as students of many

ages take a week or two off. But this year, it's coming at a time when people are increasingly

anxious about the economy and about prices. That's per consumer sentiment surveys. Marketplaces,

Daniel Ackerman, looked into what that might mean for the leisure and hospitality industry.

The planner in me shudders to think this, but a lot of people right now still haven't decided

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