The IRS could face additional funding cuts this fall. Lawmakers have until the end of the fiscal year (Sept. 30) to pass legislation to continue funding the government and avoid a shutdown. The House Appropriations Committee advanced a funding bill that calls for even deeper IRS funding cuts than those proposed by the Trump administration. The bill would allocate $9.5 billion to the IRS for fiscal year 2026. That’s a 23% cut from the IRS’s current funding level. (President Trump proposed $9.8 billion, a 20% cut.) The committee also rejected Trump’s funding request to hire 11,000 additional call center representatives. The committee’s funding bill will now be voted on by the full House.
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