Rep. Greg Murphy explains reason he wants to cut IRS budget

Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) said Wednesday that cutting the Internal Revenue Service’s budget was needed since the United States cannot keep “funding people to attack this country.”

Tiana Lowe Doescher, a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner, asked Murphy how cutting the IRS’s funding would not negatively affect the deficit of the United States, as those opposed to cutting the funding say the IRS manages to double the money given to it. Murphy explained that the IRS tends to go after people who own small businesses, and are not “the main pockets of income source for the country.”

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“The bottom line is that we can’t keep funding people to attack this country,” Murphy said on Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria. “We have the weaponization of the IRS, the DOJ, the FBI, and I think that’s really one of the core issues that really talks about funding with the IRS.”

Murphy’s comments come after the Biden administration criticized a bill from House Republicans to provide aid to Israel, which would give over $14 billion to the Middle Eastern country while cutting the IRS’s budget. The Office of Management and Budget issued a statement claiming that this bill would be bad for Israel, the Middle East, and “for our own national security.”

Beyond criticizing the bill, the White House has also threatened to veto it should it ever reach President Joe Biden’s desk.

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Murphy explained that the House’s bill needed to be funded in one way or another, and that if funding would take away money from IRS agents “coming after average Americans, then so be it.”

When pressed about how Biden has made clear he will veto the bill, Murphy pointed to how Biden had initially said he would not negotiate on the debt ceiling, adding that “we’ll see how things work out.”