One of the Biden administration’s big accomplishments that it was inordinately proud of was launching the first major expansion of the IRS. (Maybe this also explains why it lost the election. You have to be really out of touch to hype up expanding the IRS.)

Now that expansion of America’s least favorite arm of the government is running backward.

The Internal Revenue Service is preparing to conduct mass firings of 6,700 employees beginning Thursday, according to multiple employees notified of the plans.

Staff in their probationary periods—mostly recent hires, though in some cases longtime federal workers—received notice that they must report into the office Thursday and bring all of their government equipment, identification cards, parking permits and other documents

As we previously discussed with the FAA firings, probationary employees are easier to fire, and the PR consequences are less, also the Biden administration packed its political allies and DEI hires into recent positions making it even more urgent to shed them.

Of course that’s just the beginning.

“The IRS workforce eclipsed 100,000 employees in fiscal 2024, up from 80,000 as the start of the Biden administration.”

That’s roughly 1 out of 3 down. More to go.

The media sob stories for the IRS employees are bound to win over the public. I’m sure.