The Internal Revenue Service is reportedly planning layoffs of thousands of first-year probationary employees in the midst of tax season as soon as this week.

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It’s unclear how many IRS workers will be affected. IRS employees involved in tax-season work were told they will not be allowed to accept a buyout offer from the Trump administ

The defense secretary posted an undated IRS notice on social media. He offered no evidence that it was politically motivated.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Monday accused the Biden administration of orchestrating a last-minute audit of him and his wife by the IRS before last month’s transition of power. Hegseth posted a picture to the social media platform X of what he said was a letter from the IRS alerting him to the audit.

We will never back down,” Hegseth wrote of a letter seemingly asking him to address debts owed to the federal government.