McCarthy Pleases Right-Wingers by Passing a Bill to Defund the IRS - Too Bad It's Not Going Anywhere

What a sad picture.

A gaggle of House Republicans hugging each other after passing a bill to defund the IRS.

McCarthy and cadre of election deniers were seen gloating after their imaginary victory.

Back in the real world.

There's no way in hell the Democratic majority in the Senate will approve McCarthy's move to please his base. The White House quickly announced that Biden would veto it if it came to his desk.

McCarthy knew that but agreed to push it through the House along with a list of other MAGA fantasies he granted to get the speaker of the House seat. 

No doubt some of the mega GOP donors demanded he pass the IRS defunding legislation allowing them to continue to cheat Americans by not paying their share of taxes.

The most disgusting part of McCarthy passing the bill is that it's based upon lies and MAGA conspiracies.

Republicans falsely claimed that the 87,000 new IRS employees who would be added over the next decade, would be agents. 

A blatant lie.

The fact of the matter is the funding for the IRS came out after last year's Inflation Reduction Act that included tax reforms, health care and climate issues.

Furthermore, only a small portion of the money for the 87,000 IRS employees would go to agents.

The rest accounts for other workers such as customer service representatives and computer scientists as well as replacements for the 52,000 employees expected to retire or resign with the next six years.

It all comes down to this, we have proof that House Republicans are there to serve Trump and not their constituents.

The new order in the House is a minority that can shake the majorities will off with relative ease. So far.

To lather on some irony the bill is terrible for middle-class families and small businesses despite what the GOP called it, the "Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act"

As it stands, the day is going to come when the majority of Republican House members get tired of not seeing any legislation get passed into law because they've been passengers on the Clown Train Caucus.