The Taxman Goeth: Layoffs are Happening at the IRS
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October 11, 2025If you’re currently being audited, BOY DO I HAVE SOME FUN NEWS FOR YOU! Layoffs are happening at the IRS due to the government shutdown. It’s not a small number either—we’re talking about 1,400 jobs at the Legal Theft headquarters.
Fourteen-hundred employees at the Internal Revenue Service will be laid off in a process initiated Friday, The Daily Wire has learned.
The number is larger than anyone expected, with the IRS union filing a lawsuit to stop what it said it had “heard” might be 1,300 layoffs across the entire Treasury Department. The real number, an Office of Management and Budget official told The Daily Wire, is 1,400 at the IRS alone, plus more at other components of Treasury.
The layoffs come as Democrats refuse to fund the government at all unless the Republican majority agrees to increased spending for non-citizens’ health care and other topics. That has resulted in a government shutdown, wherein employees are sent home and traditionally receive back pay once a deal is reached.
The Trump administration has countered that if federal employees are going to be prohibited from working due to a shutdown, some will never come back at all – particularly those that staff agencies favored by Democrats.
The IRS was targeted as a bloated agency that Democrats have used for political purposes, including targeting conservative nonprofits, the OMB official said. The official said the tax collecting agency spent $35 million on guns, ammunition, and military-style weaponry between 2006 and 2023, and advertised job postings that said special agents must be willing to use “deadly force.”
I hope they make it rain with pink slips up in there for a couple of reasons:
- The IRS is bloated
- Taxation is theft
That’s it. Those are my reasons. Let the layoffs commence.
Am I being petty? Maybe. But I also think we need to find some silver lining moments during this whole shutdown debacle. And boy, is this the shiniest silver lining I have ever seen.
