On Sunday, the Senate voted 50-50 on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, with Vice President Kamala Harris throwing the tiebreaking vote to pass the bill.
Fox News Digital reached out to 20 of the most vulnerable House Democrats to see if they wanted to vote for the bill, and to ask for reaction to a portion of the bill that provides funding of more IRS agents. None of them replied.
Several reports suggest that the funding for the IRS could let the agency hire tens of thousands of agents to increase tax collection methods like audits on American citizens and businesses.
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Earlier in the week, Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), voiced concern that the new IRS agents could be used to target conservative groups, a notable reference to the 2013 IRS targeting scandal in which conservative groups were supposedly singled out for additional scrutiny by the tax collection agency.
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Following the bill's introduction, a report by the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) suggested that taxes would be raised on Americans in almost every income category. It also emphasized the bill raises taxes on individuals making under $400,000 a year, despite President Biden's 2021 pledge that no American in that income range would pay "a single penny" more in taxes.
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Republicans claim the bill will increase taxes on working-class Americans amid an economic downturn. Fox also raised the middle-class tax question to the vulnerable House Democrats, but received no response.
Progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., described the new legislation as the "so-called Inflation Reduction Act," and settled with the JCT in that it would have "minimal impact" on dropping inflation, despite Democratic politicians disputing the report.
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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., denied claims that it would raise taxes, telling Fox News' Harris Faulkner that the JCT opinion was incorrect because "my friends only wrote it on the Republicans side, not the entire joint committee."
When asked for comment by Fox News Digital on how they would vote, and on the possible expansion of the IRS, none of the following Democrats provided a response: Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kan.; Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine; Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.; Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich.; Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn.; Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H.; Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H.; Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev.; Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nev.; Rep. Steve Horsford, D-Nev.; Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Pa.; Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va.; Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va.; Rep. Kim Schrier, D-Wash.; Rep. Cindy Axne, D-Iowa; Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas; Rep. Susan Wild, D-Pa.; Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J.; Rep. Tom O’Halleran, D-Ariz.
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