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TODAY'S NUGGETS
💰 DOGE’s clandestine tax cut for billionaires is coming. More than 11,000 employees of the Internal Revenue Service, about 11 percent of its total workforce, have parted ways with the agency since February 2025, according to a new internal report. IRS employees who audit the wealthiest taxpayers were among the hardest hit: The agency unit that inspects billionaires has lost 38 percent of its team since January, even though tax evasion by the nation’s superrich already amounts to $150 billion in lost annual revenue.
