{"id":33835,"date":"2025-02-20T14:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T14:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/irs-reportedly-set-to-fire-6000-workers-at-the-height-of-tax-filing-season-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T14:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T14:37:52","slug":"irs-reportedly-set-to-fire-6000-workers-at-the-height-of-tax-filing-season-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/irs-reportedly-set-to-fire-6000-workers-at-the-height-of-tax-filing-season-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS reportedly set to fire 6,000 workers at the height of tax-filing season \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Probationary employees targeted for cuts thought to mainly be auditors and support staff; Vance due to give speech at CPAC<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/feb\/20\/how-will-trump-and-musk-freeze-on-usaid-affect-millions-around-world\">How will Trump and Musk USAid freeze affect millions around world?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/20\/trump-voters-georgia\">\u2018He\u2019s taking a sledgehammer to it\u2019: Trump voters\u2019 view on first month<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Defense secretary <strong>Pete Hegseth<\/strong> has ordered senior leaders at the Pentagon and throughout the US military to develop plans for cutting 8% from the defense budget in each of the next five years, according to a reports on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The memo, dated Tuesday, orders a number of branches within the military and the Pentagon to turn in budget-cutting proposals by next Monday.<\/p>\n<p><em>The time for preparation is over \u2013 we must act urgently to revive the warrior ethos, rebuild our military, and re-establish deterrence. Our budget will resource the fighting force we need, cease unnecessary defense spending, reject excessive bureaucracy, and drive actionable reform including progress on the audit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/feb\/20\/trump-cpac-vance-ukraine-federal-cuts-latest-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probationary employees targeted for cuts thought to mainly be auditors and support staff; Vance due to give speech at CPAC How will Trump and Musk USAid freeze affect millions around world? \u2018He\u2019s taking a sledgehammer to it\u2019: Trump voters\u2019 view on first month Defense secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered senior leaders at the Pentagon and &#8230; <a title=\"IRS reportedly set to fire 6,000 workers at the height of tax-filing season \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/irs-reportedly-set-to-fire-6000-workers-at-the-height-of-tax-filing-season-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about IRS reportedly set to fire 6,000 workers at the height of tax-filing season \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}