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The IRS Is Re-Hiring Hundreds Of Awful Employees – Time For Congress To Act?

The public image of the IRS has already been tarnished by the targeting scandal of recent years. Now they’re making things worse by re-hiring hundreds of employees who were let go for outrageous reasons.

The Daily Signal reports:

The IRS Has Rehired Hundreds of Fired Employees. Congress Should Step In.

For one of the most punitive agencies in the federal government, the IRS sure is forgiving with its own employees.

Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., has proposed a bill that would prevent the IRS from rehiring employees fired for misconduct or poor performance.

The bill, titled the Ensuring Integrity in the IRS Workforce Act, follows a recent Treasury inspector general report that shows the IRS rehired more than 200 fired workers in a little over a year. […]

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