(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., introduced legislation on Wednesday that will redirect $15 billion to bolster security along the southern border instead of hiring 87,000 new Internal Revenue Service employees.
The legislation, dubbed the Securing Our Border Act, would increase patrols, provide state-of-the-art technology to Customs and Border Protection officers and improve border inspections with the resources they need to track down illegal substances, including fentanyl, the Daily Caller reported.
Scott introduced the bill as an answer to the Left’s $740-billion Inflation Reduction Act, passed by Senate Democrats, which included a whopping $15 billion for the IRS, and $370 billion going towards green energy subsidies and tax credits.
“We have a crisis on our southern border,” Scott said, who noted in the bill that CBP agents had 199,976 migrant encounters at the southern border during July 2022 — 13,299 were unaccompanied minors.
“Rather than putting resources in place to address this major national security and humanitarian catastrophe, the Biden administration and congressional Democrats chose instead to spend $45 billion of taxpayer money to hire an army of IRS agents to audit the middle class,” Scott told the news outlet.
Democrats have argued that better IRS enforcement will yield more loot to fund their pet projects and government in general, while Republicans have warned that middle-class and low-income citizens will face a surge of IRS audits as a result.
“While President Biden continues to drop the ball, I’m introducing legislation to fund border infrastructure and give our Border Patrol agents the tools they need to help stop the unaddressed flows of illicit goods and persons into this country,” Scott added. “Americans need more border agents keeping them safe – not thousands more IRS agents looking over their shoulder.”
Scott’s bill, which has gained endorsement from the National Border Patrol Council, had original cosponsors of Republican senators including Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Steve Daines of Montana, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Mike Rounds of South Dakota and James Lankford of Oklahoma.
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