Media reaction is 'a shame': Trump’s Treasury secretary SHUTS DOWN reporter trying to attack DOGE



While the Biden government hired 80,000 new IRS agents to make sure you followed every one of their complicated tax laws, President Trump ordered the DOGE to audit the government — and now Democrat politicians and the media are freaking out.

The reaction speaks volumes about where their true priorities lie, and Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” is tired of it, especially following a judge’s attempt to block even Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent from accessing Treasury data.

But Bessent isn’t backing down, and even recently defended the DOGE against a Bloomberg reporter, who pressed Bessent on Elon Musk.


While the reporter insinuated that Elon was doing something wrong, Bessent replied that he and Elon “are completely aligned in terms of cutting waste and increasing accountability and transparency for the American people.”

“I believe that this DOGE program, in my adult life, is one of the most important audits of government or changes to government structure we have seen,” Bessent said firmly. “I think that there are gigantic cost savings for the American people here, and I think it’s unfortunate the way the media wants to lampoon what is going on.”

“These are highly trained professionals, you know, this is not some roving band going around doing things. This is methodical, and it is going to yield big savings,” he added.

Glenn is shocked at the reporter's hostility throughout the interview.

“Did you hear a nonhostile question coming from the Bloomberg reporter?” he asks.

“No,” Pat Gray answers, adding, “But he handled it in a nonhostile way.”

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Insider reveals: ​Super Bowl, hypocritical Democrats, and IRS backfire exposed



Football fans everywhere couldn’t be happier that Super Bowl LIX ended in the Philadelphia Eagles' triumphant resurgence — and Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America” was one of them.

Burguiere, who was in the crowd for the 20th time, was thrilled with the response President Trump received from those also in attendance.

“They put him up on the screen, loud cheers, really positive response after he was on the screen for maybe five seconds,” Stu explains, noting that while he’s thrilled, his week has been tainted by a letter he received in the mail.

“I somehow survived the entire Obama administration and the Biden administration without getting audited, and yet what did I get in the mail a week ago but a letter from the IRS promising to audit me? So the DOGE cannot come fast enough,” he tells financial expert Carol Roth.


“That is a direct result of the fact that the Democrats campaigned on adding tens of thousands of new agents to the IRS, and they promised you that it was only going to be for the billionaires. So congratulations on your billionaire status,” Roth laughs.

“I find it hilarious that everybody who is looking for you to report your $600 Venmo payments and eBay payments, because of billionaires, now all of a sudden is having a conniption fit that we want some transparency to where our money is going. It’s not even their money; it is our money,” she continues.

This is why what Trump is attempting with the DOGE is so important.

“I would like to see that limit for reporting be raised back up to where it was before, which was $20,000, or even higher, because if you’re doing these things as hobbyists, you really don’t need to be on that. Our tax situation isn’t going to shift materially, so why not give people a break and let them not have to worry about keeping transactions?” Roth says.

“It just goes to show how completely hypocritical Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, all of these Dems are, that they want to sneak in and take a look and put you under the microscope, but when they forcibly take $5 trillion from us per year, and we demand to know how that’s being spent, all of a sudden they want to be up in arms over it,” she adds.

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The White House Is Lying About Democrats’ Middle-Class Auditing Scheme

While the Democrats’ so-called Inflation Reduction Act will use taxpayer dollars to pack the Internal Revenue Service with 87,000 new agents, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed there won’t be any new audits on people making less than $400,000 a year. The claim is ridiculous on its face. Over 99 percent of Americans make […]

IRS pinky-promises 87,000 more employees won't​ lead to more audits



"Imagine thousands of IRS agents descending upon America like a swarm of locusts!" That was the imagery Ted Cruz used on Wednesday to describe Democrat bill peddled by Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin.

Of course, the always honest New York Times published an article claiming that the IRS pinky-promises 87,000 more employees will not lead to more audits. According to the New York Times, Charles P. Rettig, the Internal Revenue Service commissioner, said the agency would use $80 billion to modernize technology and crack down on wealthy tax evaders.

“These resources are absolutely not about increasing audit scrutiny on small businesses or middle-income Americans. As we have been planning, our investment of these enforcement resources is designed around Treasury’s directive that audit rates will not rise relative to recent years for households making under $400,000,” Rettig explained in a letter to Congress.

But according to Cruz, the bill aims at small businesses and individuals. "The Democrats' idea is that if they audit the hell out of Americans, think of all the money they can raise," said Cruz.

The Senate will take up the climate, health, and tax bill on Saturday.


Schumer-Manchin would fund 87,000 IRS agents.

Just imagine THOUSANDS of IRS agents descending upon America like a swarm of locusts! pic.twitter.com/4lMejTrOvT

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 3, 2022

What's in the bill?

TheBlaze reported that the spending bill would advance a progressive agenda with items including:

  • Raising taxes by instituting a minimum corporate tax rate of 15%, which Democrats estimate will raise just $313 billion of revenue.
  • Beefing up IRS tax enforcement to raise $124 billion.
  • Permitting Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, raising a projected $288 billion.
  • Spending $369 billion on "energy security and climate change."

Of course, the New York Times did what it does and found a way to blame former president Donald Trump.

"The agency’s scrutiny has crossed party lines, according to the I.R.S. inspector general. But it came under fire again last month after The New York Times reported that James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and his deputy, Andrew G. McCabe — both perceived enemies of former President Donald J. Trump — faced rare, exhaustive audits during the Trump administration. The I.R.S. said Mr. Rettig had not been involved in the audits," The NYT wrote.

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