Top Republican to IRS: You say you’re broke. How can you afford 700 new employees?

The Washington Post (online registration required): The chairman of a powerful House committee is demanding to know how IRS chief John Koskinen has found the money to hire up to 700 enforcement staff when he told Congress a short time ago his agency was more or less broke.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform panel, reminded the IRS commissioner in a letter that he told lawmakers in February that he “urgently needed” a billion-dollar budget increase next year to boost the agency’s enforcement staff.

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