House Rules Committee Democrats killed an amendment offered by Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) that would have redirected billions of tax dollars that the Senate has slated for hiring 87,000 new IRS agents to instead hire thousands of new border security personnel.
No changes were allowed by the Democratic majority to the Senate version of the Inflation Reduction Act approved by the Senate on Aug. 7 in a 51–50 vote; Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote in the evenly split chamber.
