Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2025
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by Alan Jamison
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The Trump administration has successfully reduced the Internal Revenue Service’s workforce by 26,000 in just four months. This is a 25 percent reduction in the number of employees at the agency since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, and a major feather in the cap of the 47th President, who promised to reverse the Biden-era beefing up of the agency.
The most recent employment data is from May, with more reductions likely occurring since then. The IRS garnered significant controversy in 2022 after Joe Biden signed the “Inflation Reduction Act” into law when Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate. The bill included almost $80 billion that allowed the agency to surpass 100,000 employees by 2025. The goal was to eventually hire 87,000 new employees over the course of a decade. Trump promised on the campaign trail to roll back that funding.
“It actually sets us back, as opposed to moves us forward,” Trump said on the campaign of the Biden IRS funding. “And [I will] rescind all unspent funds under the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act.”
On the same day he returned to office, Trump signed an executive order issuing a hiring freeze for federal civilian employees. He then issued another executive order extending the freeze on April 17. The executive order states that the hiring freeze for the IRS will remain in effect until the Secretary of the Treasury “determines that it is in the national interest to terminate the freeze and publishes notice of such determination in the Federal Register.”
This hiring freeze has facilitated the reduction in the IRS workforce that has been carried out through buyouts and firings. The Washington Times reported that the workforce reduction includes “27% of the tax examiners and 26% of the revenue agents.” Information technology is “shedding 23% of its workforce” with management and analysis cutting “28% of its staff.”
Of the employees cut from the IRS, 4,600 were part of a buyout in January. Another 17,000 volunteered for early retirement. Only 300 were part of a “reduction in force” while thousands more “were part of smaller separation programs.” The workforce is expected to drop to 77,000 from 103,000 in January.
Conservative social media influencer Bo Loudon celebrated the news in a post on X.
“BREAKING: President Trump just FIRED 26,000 IRS agents, which is: 27% of their tax examiners. 26% of their revenue agents. 25% of their entire workforce. 28% of their Management & Analysis Division. 23% of their information technology workforce,” he said. “THIS IS WHAT I VOTED FOR!”
Trump has continued to focus on tax reform by signing the One Big Beautiful Bill into law on July 4. This new law eliminates taxes on tips up to $25,000 per year, eliminates taxes on overtime up to $12,500 per year, and creates an additional tax deduction of $6,000 for seniors 65 and older.
Alan Jamison is the pen name of a political writer with extensive experience writing for several notable politicians and news outlets.
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