Social media users sounded the alarm that a significant IRS-affiliated union’s recent endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris is a huge red flag.
The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU)—a union representing numerous federal agents, including the IRS—released a statement this week that praised Harris for increasing the IRS’s budget and endorsing her for president. Users of X saw it as more proof that the vice president should not get anywhere near the Oval Office.
“The IRS Agents Union just endorsed Kamala Harris. That should tell you all what her plans are for us. Get ready to be taxed to death. VOTE TRUMP!” said Joey Mannarino, conservative commentator, on X early Saturday.
In a Wednesday press release, the NTEU said it was endorsing VP Harris and stated the Biden-Harris administration “also delivered agency budgets that provide federal employees with additional staffing and resources, including significant new investments to rebuild the IRS under the Inflation Reduction Act.”
Doreen Greenwald, NTEU National President, was quoted in the statement as saying, “When it comes to treating federal employees with respect, valuing their service, and investing in their work, Kamala Harris is the clear choice. She shares our values and commitment to ensuring that the federal government works for all Americans.”
Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act increased the IRS budget by $80 billion over ten years
As the Media Research Center pointed out, the Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act increased the IRS’s budget by $80 billion over ten years, an expansion that will allow it to hire 87,000 additional agents.
Jason Chaffetz, a Fox News contributor, warned of the Biden-Harris administration’s further plans to expand the IRS, writing in a September Fox News op-ed, “Now, the Biden-Harris administration’s 2025 budget proposal calls for an additional $104 billion for the IRS. That’s eight times the annual budget, just two years after Congress appropriated an amount that was seven times the agency’s annual budget. What is going on here?”
Users of X saw the IRS endorsement as a bad sign. Greg Price, a conservative digital strategist, wrote, “If the IRS, the FBI, Wall Street, Iran, Putin, the military-industrial complex, the New York Times, Iran, 100 former McCain interns, and Dick Cheney all want one candidate to win then, for the love of God, vote for the other one.”
Podcast host and commentator Comfortably Smug blasted the Harris campaign for brandishing the endorsement proudly, posting, “The fact that the IRS is unionizing is horrific, let alone that Kamala Harris thinks their endorsement is a good thing.”
Influential libertarian X account, “Being Libertarian” wrote, “All the worst people in the world are endorsing Kamala. Weird.”
“Was Satan not available?” questioned “The Redheaded Libertarian” X account.
