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IRS Posts Thousands of Customer Service Jobs After Downsizing The IRS has issued job postings for thousands of positions in the taxpayer services division after months of staffing cuts that shrunk the agency’s workforce by about one-quarter.

The IRS has issued job postings for thousands of positions in the taxpayer services division after months of staffing cuts that shrunk the agency’s workforce by about one-quarter.

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IRS Chief Says Direct File Is ‘Gone,’ Other Audit Tech Is Coming The Biden-era IRS free filing tool, Direct File, is “gone,” IRS Commissioner Billy Long said.

“You’ve heard of Direct File,” new IRS Commissioner Billy Long said Monday in one of his first public appearances since taking the job. “That’s gone. Big beautiful Billy wiped that out. I don’t care about Direct File. I care about direct audit.”

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Stolen Tax Refund Check Recovery Bill Gets Senate Momentum (1) Taxpayers who have paper IRS refund checks stolen or lost in the mail would be eligible for electronic payments under a House-passed measure that’s getting traction in the Senate.

Tax Admin News - Taxpayers with stolen or lost refund checks would be eligible for electronic payments under a bill from Marsha Blackburn Mark Warner.

A version of the blil has already passed the House.

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Republicans are pushing for policy changes on traditionally bipartisan issues like cryptocurrency, but in the aftermath of the GOP’s $3.4 trillion tax-and-spending bill there may be little goodwill left.

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Andy Harris on outcome of HFC discussions over concerns with the bill:

“We came to significant agreements with the administration overnight on executive actions, both inside and outside of the bill that will make America great again”

When we may see them: “Ask the president”

!!! TRUMP TAX BILL PASSES 218-214.

!!! TAX BILL HAS THE VOTES TO PASS

The GOP’s $3.4 trillion tax bill seems headed toward passage, but backers of some policies that didn’t make it in—from normalization of tax relations with Taiwan to extending a bipartisan work credit—will ramp up lobbying before campaign season begins

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!!! Jeffries passes McCarthy - he now holds the record for longest floor speech

Kevin McCarthy holds the current record: 8 hours, 32 minutes.

MAGIC MINUTE: Hakeem Jeffries said I'm going to take my time when and started talking at about 4:30 a.m.

He's still going... looks like there's lots of speech left.

Richard Neal yielded "one minute to Jeffries," But House leaders can talk for as long as they wish - Magic!

Final passage SOON: House Republicans overcame a critical procedural hurdle to advance Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending package early Thursday www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NOW: Democrats telling members to return to the floor to start vote that tees up final passage on the tax bill.

Intern for Rep. Ron Estes killed in Northwest D.C. shooting - Roll Call Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, 21, was a Granby, Mass., resident who joined Rep. Ron Estes’ office earlier in June.

Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, an intern in the office of Rep. Ron Estes, was shot and killed in Northwest D.C. on Monday night, Metropolitan Police and the Kansas Republican confirmed.

Super Bowl of Tax question -

Assuming the GOP has the ball at about the 2-minute warning of the second half.

What yardline is the party currently on?

Lobbyists Score Client Wins, Suffer Setbacks in Senate Megabill Lobbyists worked furiously to put their stamp on the final tax and budget megabill with some industries racking up big wins while others saw losses in the mega tax package passed Tuesday by the…

Lobbyists worked furiously to put their stamp on the Senate tax and budget megabill with some industries racking up big wins, while others saw losses in the package passed Tuesday by the chamber.

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Solar and Wind Excise Tax Stripped From Latest GOP Megabill The excise tax seen as an existential threat to the solar and wind industry has been stripped from the Senate GOP tax megabill that passed the chamber in a tie-breaking vote Tuesday.

NEW: The excise tax seen as an existential threat to the solar and wind industry has been stripped from the Senate GOP tax megabill that passed the chamber in a tie-breaking vote Tuesday.

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VANCE BREAKS 50-50 tie and Senate PASSES the massive tax and spending bill after a marathon session that began at about 9 a.m. yesterday and ended at about noon today.

VP VANCE just broke a 50-50 tie on the final amendment to add the negotiated text that's been changed over the past several days. `

They're moving to Senate passage.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is now nameless, joining a long line of reconciliation bills before including the 2017 tax bill it extends.

Schumer just raised a point of order stripping the name out of the legislation.

!!NOW: Hoeven says they'll start voting within the next 15 minutes – 4 finals votes including wraparound via Ken Tran

Barasso says yes to reporters asking if he expects a vote this morning.

Key holdout Lisa Murkowski was asked if the deal is in the hands of the parliamentarian.

“It’s in the hands of the people that operate the copy machine”

DISCUSSION happening in the back of the Senate chamber.

Murkowski, Barasso, Thune, Crapo, Sullivan all huddled together having what looks to be a v intense conversation.

Wonder what happened overnight on the tax bill? The Senate voted... and voted some more. And it's still voting.

Senate Republican leaders are still scrounging up votes to pass Donald Trump’s $3.3 trillion tax and spending bill.

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GOP Tax Bill’s ‘Magic Math’ Accounting Maneuver: Explained Democrats call it “magic math.” Republicans say they aren’t doing “anything sneaky.”

Democrats call it “magic math.” Republicans say they’re not doing “anything sneaky.”

The GOP use of a controversial revenue-estimating method could, potentially make it easier for lawmakers in both parties to enact broad future changes in tax bills.

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Richest 20% Get an Average $6,055 Income Boost in Trump Tax Bill The Senate’s version of President Donald Trump’s proposed tax cut bill will cost the bottom 20% of taxpayers an average of $560 a year while giving an average boost of $6,055 to those at the top end.

The Senate’s version of President Donald Trump’s proposed tax cut bill will cost the bottom 20% of taxpayers an average of $560 a year while giving an average boost of $6,055 to those at the top end.

Senate Republicans are moving forward with a plan to mask the $3.8 trillion cost of extending expiring tax cuts in President Donald Trump’s signature economic legislation by using an unprecedented accounting maneuver.

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Stephen Miller Directs Trump’s Policies on Immigration, Ivy League The Trump White House is moving at a far faster clip in 2025 to remake the federal government and American life, in large part because Stephen Miller has put the agenda on steroids.

The Trump White House is moving at a far faster clip in 2025 to remake the federal government and American life, in large part because Stephen Miller has put the agenda on steroids.

Get some shut eye, folks. The Senate vote-a-rama excitement begins at 9 am.