WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) joined 13 of her Senate colleagues in investigating whether Frank Bisignano, Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), misled Congress and the public about his agency's staffing problems after the Trump Administration gutted the IRS workforce-leaving Americans struggling to reach customer service at the agency during the past tax filing season. New reporting reveals (https://www.notus.org/policy/irs-staff-cuts-hiring) that the IRS is scrambling to hire thousands of new workers after the agency fired or pushed out nearly 30,000 workers last year-more than a fourth of its staff.
The Senators wrote, in p...