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accomplishment. a big strategy heading into 24. no question there. ite going to be hard to pass new legislation are with republicans in control in the house. you can t walk throughout an airport without seeing signs. that s what they re going to try to do. congressional reporter for the hill, michael schnell. thanks so much for joining us this morning. as for the president, he traveled to selma, alabama, yesterday to commemorate the 58th anniversary of bloody sunday. the day marks the police attack on a group of black marchers who crossed the ed monday pettus bridge back in 1965. this was biden s first trip to selma as president. he walked across the bridge with several lawmakers and several civil rights activists. he invoked them to make a case for voting rights and four more years in office. this fundamental right remains under assault. conservative supreme court has
yeah, it s not just defense. it s the irs. let s bring in congressional reporter for the hill michael schnell. it s good to have you on this morning. everything that went down yesterday, especially as it pertains to repealing irs funding. if we start with the irs bill, mika, this is the bill that kevin mccarthy had been teasing as the first piece of legislation that a house gop majority would bring up should they win control of the chamber, and essentially what the bill does is it rescinds the bulk of that $80 billion that was appropriated to boost funding for the irs and the democrats inflation reduction act passed over the summer. the majority of the spending was basically meant to zero in on enforcement of high income earners. republicans characterized this as a way the irs was going to hire 80,000 new agents, though the department has come back and