Taxpayers and corporations. All right the joint hearing of the subcommittee on Government Operations in the federal workforce in healthcare and Financial Services committee will come to order. Welcome everyone. Without objection the chair may declare a racist at any time. I recognize myself for the purpose of making Opening Statement first and foremost thank you all for being here. This crazy bit of times we are in we are time is extremely important have been plagued with dysfunction and complexity dysfunction is acrosstheboard of data breaches and Identity Theft to slope audits, backlogs and Terrific Customer Service at least for my constituent. Despite years of oversight and watchdogs not much has changed my collect on the other side of the aisle believe more money and more power is the solution. In fact, and last years yearsInflation Reduction Act Congressional Democrats 80 billion, 80 building with the irs. With this influx of cash this funding reinforcement of improving Taxpayer S
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Force and Health Care Committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair may declare a recess at any time. I recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. Ms. Mcclain first and foremost, thank you all for being here in this crazy bit of times were in. What were talking about is extremely important. The i. R. S. Has been plagued really with dysfunction for decades. From data breaches, leak, Identity Theft, slow audits, backlogs and horrific Customer Service at least from my constituents. Despite years of oversight and government watchdog warnings not a lot has changed. My colleague on the other side of the aisle believe more money and more power is the solution. In fact in last years Inflation Reduction Act, Congressional Democrats dumped 80 billion 80 billion into the i. R. S. With this influx of cash the inch r. S. Plans to ramp up audits on all americans. This funding spree prioritizes enforcement over improving Taxpayer Services. Taxpayer Services Like pro
determination to help others. and we revisit the young blind boy in war ravaged yemen and his inspirational determination to help others. hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. stories and checking out let s start with a man hunt in the uk after a dramatic prison break yesterday. the government has ordered an independent review after a terror suspect, daniel khalife, escaped from wandsworth prison by clinging to the underside of a food delivery van leaving the jail. the 21 year old was awaiting trial, accused of leaving fake bombs at a military base while serving in the army. ports and airports, are now on high alert. graham satchell reports. it looked like business as usual at wandsworth today prison vans coming and going, but the jail is now at the centre of a growing storm, with serious questions about how a terror suspect managed to escape. daniel khalife was working in the kitch
he said sort of cryptic things, migration is too high, yes, i think 700,000 were there it s too big, but today, for the first time in this campaign, he s been clear about a commitment to get the numbers down, which that is a different thing to saying i think it s too high, why? should the next general election be around that time, people like you and me will say you made a commitment in the last general election, how have you delivered against it? i also think it s significant because of the politics of it and the politics of it are pretty obvious and we should bill it out anyway. this is keir starmer, yet again, as he has every day since, though, it was a bit different at the start, he is trying to basically bash voters over the head with a message that he is moving the labour party way to the right of where it was in 2019 and 2017 general elections when their approach to immigration would ve been quite different to this. that is the message here. we can see this is the mess