Summary
On Sunday, Senate Democrats passed their climate, health care and tax package. Part of the package includes $80 billion in funding for the Internal Revenue Service over 10 years, which would almost double the agency’s current budget. Plus, a question about Adam Schiff.
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| 1:05.4 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we are going to be talking about IRS funding, a provision in the |
| 1:12.8 | Inflation Reduction Act that will increase funding for the IRS, what it means, some |
| 1:18.7 | arguments for and against it, and of course, what I think. |
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| 1:30.1 | one of the most common questions I get entangle, which is which party is more extreme. There has been |
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| 2:03.4 | All right. So with that out of the way, we'll jump in with our quick hits. |
| 2:13.7 | First up, during a deposition with New York State Attorney General Letitia James, former President |
| 2:18.9 | Donald Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions. James is investigating |
| 2:24.1 | the Trump Organization for Financial Fraud. Number two, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo |
| 2:29.7 | was also a target in a plot by Iranian operatives to murder former Trump advisor John Bolton. That's according |
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