Manhattan Borough President says they have the names and addresses of vaccinated-but-not-boosted New Yorkers, and the government should start knocking on their doors
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Personally, I don’t think there are enough Irish left in the City to make a dent in this compliance rate, but that’s just my opinion
Upon receiving Jordan and Issa’s 2021 letter demanding answers, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig referred them to Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George, according to responses to the inquiries reviewed by the DCNF. George replied that the Republican lawmakers’ request for TIGTA to brief Congress on the investigation could only be made by either the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Joint Committee on Taxation or the Senate Finance Committee – all of whom happen to be Democrats.
Jordan said the IRS leaks appeared to be “partisan” and coincided with Democrats’ calls for tax increases.
“Somehow taxpayer returns went public right when the Democrats were talking about raising taxes on the wealthy,” Jordan told the DCNF.
“This is the same IRS that 12 years ago was targeting conservatives,” he added, referring to the IRS delaying tax exemption applications for conservative nonprofits during the Obama administration.
Jordan suggested the leaks may be part of a broader trend of the federal government being “weaponized against … the American citizens” to advance a political agenda.
“You saw it with the IRS 12 years ago, you saw it with the FBI five years ago when they orchestrated the spying on the Trump campaign, you’ve seen it more recently with the Department of Justice effort after a letter comes in to the Biden administration from the school boards association,” Jordan told the DCNF. “Literally five days later, the attorney general of the United States issues a memorandum to all U.S. attorneys doing exactly what the letter asked the Biden administration to do.”
