‘Seems High’: Musk Reacts to $80 Billion IRS Funding in Billion-Dollar Spending Bill

‘Seems High’: Musk Reacts to $80 Billion IRS Funding in Billion-Dollar Spending Bill
SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during a conversation with legendary game designer Todd Howard (not pictured) at the E3 gaming convention in Los Angeles on June 13, 2019. Mike Blake/Reuters
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Elon Musk cast doubt over the $80 billion funding boost to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which is part of a Democrat-backed economic package passed by the Senate on Aug. 7.

“Seems high,” Musk, the billionaire tech mogul, said in a Monday post on Twitter in response to a report by the Washington Free Beacon. The conservative media outlet found that under a new law, the tax agency would employ more bureaucrats than the Pentagon, the State Department, the FBI, and Customs and U.S. Border Patrol combined.
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