Friday, June 24th, 2016 @ 9:31PM

The Hill, House Panel Votes to Cut IRS Funding:

The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a spending bill that would reduce funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

The bill would give the IRS $10.9 billion for fiscal 2017, which is $236 million less than the enacted level for this year.

The IRS budget under the bill would be lower than its 2008 level and $1.3 billion less than President Obama requested in his budget. The bill also includes provisions to stop the IRS from further implementing ObamaCare and to increase oversight of the IRS in the wake of its political-targeting scandal.

Republicans supported the bill’s treatment of the IRS.

Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-Fla.), chairman of the subcommittee with jurisdiction over the bill, said that instead of turning over a new leaf after the targeting scandal came to light, “the IRS made a series of embarrassing management mistakes at the expense of customer service.”

But Democrats expressed concerns about the cuts to the IRS. Rep. José Serrano (D-N.Y.), the top Democrat on the subcommittee, said that “by continually cutting the IRS, we are simply empowering tax cheats and confusing honest taxpayers.”

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