a roll call vote would be nice though
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Non-Law Enforcement Agencies Like IRS and EPA Spend Billions on Guns and Ammo, Watchdog Says
Federal agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency have spentnearly $4 billion in taxpayer fundson guns, ammunition, and other "military-style equipment," a watchdog group found.
Since 2006, "76 rank-and-file agencies" outside "traditional law enforcement entities" or the Department of Defense spent $3.7 billion on "guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment," according to watchdog group Open the Books's summary of its report. These agencies include the National Institutes of Health, NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Small Business Administration, among others that historically have played little to no role in law enforcement activities.
Federal agencies have ramped up spending on weapons and ammunition under the Biden administration, according to data provided to the Washington Free Beacon. The IRS has seen its annual spending on these items nearly double since 2020, while the whole federal government has seen a 60 percent increase over the same period.
The report comes as the Biden administration works to hire 87,000 new IRS employees, raising alarms across the country that the government is stepping up its tax enforcement of rank-and-file Americans. Republicans have sounded the alarm on this policy and others like it as examples of the federal government being "weaponized" against the American people.
This weaponization is part of a longer pattern, according to Open the Books founder and CEO Adam Andrzejewski.
"A culture of militarization has permeated across the federal bureaucracy," Andrzejewski said in a statement."In many cases, these agencies are stockpiling the very weapons some politicians seek to ban citizens from owning."
"It's not only the IRS, but dozens of other rank-and-file administrative federal agencies," Andrzejewski said."So, just who are they preparing to battle?"
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