House GOP bill aims at hiring more border agents with funds redirected from IRS [Video]

FIRST ON FOX – Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., is introducing a bill that aims to redirect funding from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to fund the hiring of more Border Patrol agents at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The bill, titled the “Diverting IRS Resources to the Exigent Crisis Today Act” or the “DIRECT Act,” aims to “rescind certain balances made available to the Internal Revenue Service and redirect them to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.”

Specifically, the proposal seeks to have “unobligated balances” appropriated or otherwise made available to the IRS for “enforcement activities” under federal law instead go to the CBP “for the salaries and expenses of new agents and officers hired for the security of the southern border of the United States,” according to the bill’s language. Tenney is reintroducing the 2023 bill to the newly sworn-in 119th Congress.

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