Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Weber (TX-14) announced that he is an original co-sponsor of the Diverting IRS Resources to the Exigent Crisis Through (DIRECT) Funds for Border Security Act. The legislation stops Biden’s new IRS army from launching audits of middle-class families and instead invests those funds in additional Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents to secure the Southern Border. This bill is led by Rep. Claudia Tenney (NY-22).

As part of the partisan Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the IRS received $45.6 billion for additional enforcement activities. Contrary to President Biden’s claims, these additional audits will primarily target lower- and middle-income Americans. The IRA also failed to invest enough in the Taxpayer Advocate Service, a proven resource for enhancing the responsiveness and delivery of services to American taxpayers.  While Biden targets law-abiding American families to pay for his inflationary policy priorities, he continues to ignore the crisis on our Southern Border. Already in FY22 there have been over 2.1 million border encounters, the highest fiscal year total ever, with one month’s worth of data still yet to be reported.  In less than two years, the Biden administration has already surpassed the total number of encounters during the entirety of President Barack Obama’s 8 years in office.

“Democrats would rather audit more hard-working Americans than prioritize the crisis at our southern border,” said Rep. Weber. “The American people want lower taxes, less government intrusion, and a safe and secure border. But under Joe Biden, we are getting the complete opposite. Instead, 87,000 new IRS agents will make the agency larger than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol combined. It’s way past time for this administration to take a serious look at their failing border policies and reverse them. The DIRECT Funds for Border Security Act will provide CBP with the money needed to hire new agents to secure our border.”

Specifically, the DIRECT Funds for Border Security Act would rescind all of the unobligated funds under the partisan Inflation Reduction Act for new IRS enforcement activities and reappropriate these funds for CBP to hire additional agents to secure the Southern Border.