The budget bill contains tens of billions to fund an army of 10,000 more ICE agents. This is a red alert moment for our democracy.
@georgetakei You mean, like Biden's $45 bil to hire 24,600 additional armed IRS agents? At least the ICE agents will be coming (mostly) after illegal immigrants, while the IRS agents - definitely after American citizens...
@bontchev @georgetakei IRS staff aren’t armed. They don’t have armed ā€œagentsā€ like law enforcement agencies do.

@deepthoughts10 @georgetakei

"Is the IRS Hiring 'Armed Special Agents Prepared To Use Deadly Force'?":

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/irs-armed-agents/

Fact check: True

Is the IRS Hiring 'Armed Special Agents Prepared To Use Deadly Force'?

The existence of both the job and the clickbait headlines about that job are nothing new.

Snopes
@bontchev @georgetakei show me a case where ā€œarmed IRS agentsā€ did literally anything. Just because Snopes says this is true because we found a job postingā€ doesn’t mean anything
@deepthoughts10 @georgetakei It means that it is true and indeed IRS was hiring armed agents. What they were supposed to be used for is anyone's guess... Oh, wait, what are armed government agents normally used for?