Senate Passes Radical Left Wish List

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Jordan Sekulow

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August 8, 2022

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The U.S Senate just passed the radical Left’s wish list, the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. Now it goes to the U.S. House of Representatives. Ironically there are reports from experts predicting this act will have little to no impact on reducing inflation, and in fact, it could make inflation worse.

What this act is really about is more government, more spending, doubling the IRS to hire more agents to conduct even more audits. We recently told you how the Biden IRS is eyeing 1.7 MILLION additional audits if this act is passed into law.

Now it goes to the House, where we had thought it might be facing some pushback by some of the farthest-Left members like the so-called Squad – which of course includes Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and their Socialist ringleader Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – but given that it includes some of their Green New Deal rhetoric, they’ll likely vote in favor as well. In fact it’s the biggest spending climate bill we’ve ever seen. Maybe that’s why even the loudest of the “tax the rich” progressives are willing to overlook private equity investors getting a pass on a tax increase.

We have our own economic team looking carefully at the bill, but the reality is, this is probably going to pass all the way around – which means an IRS on steroids, with tens of thousands of new agents, and many more audits of working Americans.

I asked ACLJ Senior Counsel for Global Affairs (and former U.S. Secretary of State) Mike Pompeo what the impact of this will be for working Americans. He responded with an alarming – but likely accurate – prediction: 

I actually think while they seem pretty celebratory today, they should be very careful about what they celebrate. This will prove to be . . . very hollow. It will come back to harm the American people. Average ordinary families who are trying to live their lives, go to church, do things we all do, will be punished by this. There are, deeply buried in this, huge handouts to the union bosses, union cronies, that advantage union work against small companies all across America. If anyone thinks for a second that the new 86,000 IRS employees are going to just go after the couple hundred billionaires, or a couple thousand people worth a lot of money, they’re crazy. They will come after citizens of every stripe who are just working people. This will pose huge costs to the American economy. Even the CBO doesn’t think it’s going to do a darn thing to lower inflation. I can’t imagine that government spending would for the first time in history, ever actually lower inflation.

It seems almost impossible that this package will lower anything except the morale of working Americans. Especially those who’ve ever donated money to a conservative cause or candidate, or if they’ve tithed to a church the Left doesn’t like. We know what a beefed up IRS will do to conservatives and Christians. We already fought the Obama-Biden IRS in court – AND WON – forcing the IRS to apologize for the agency’s rampant political bias and corruption.

We’d like to believe the Deep State IRS learned its lessons under President Obama, and yet it’s already begun pulling some of the same tricks under the Biden Administration. Just last year the ACLJ learned of a Christian organization, Christians Engaged, that had its initial request for tax-exempt status denied for the group’s belief in prayer and Biblical values.

As we told you at the time, the IRS ultimately granted the organization’s tax-exempt status. But we still filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request demanding all records pertaining to the decision to deny their request, which the Biden Administration, believing itself above the law, just ignored. So we filed a lawsuit against Team Biden over the IRS targeting of Christians.

My dad, ACLJ Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow, even referenced the Christians Engaged case when he testified before Members of the House Ways and Means Committee regarding the IRS targeting of Christians and conservatives.

It’s clear the Deep State IRS wants to claw up as much power as it can get. We will be monitoring this bill as it progresses, and we’ll be willing to act if necessary.

Today’s full Sekulow broadcast includes further discussion about the Inflation Reduction Act and even more conversation with ACLJ Senior Counsel for Global Affairs Mike Pompeo.

Watch the full broadcast below: