Social media users warned that a major IRS labor union's recent endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris was a serious red flag.
The National Treasury Employees Union, a labor union that represents a range of federal employees, including IRS employees, released a statement this week praising Harris for increasing the IRS's budget and endorsing her as a presidential candidate, which X users saw as further evidence that Harris should stay away from the White House.
“The IRS Employees Union has endorsed Kamala Harris. Now you know what she has planned for us. Prepare to pay taxes to death. Vote Trump!” conservative commentator Joey Mannarino announced on X on Saturday morning.
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Social media users slammed US Vice President Kamala Harris after her campaign received an endorsement this week from the union that represents IRS employees. (Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NTEU explained its reasons for supporting Harris on Wednesday. press releaseThe Biden/Harris Administration also implemented agency budgets that “provide additional staffing and resources to federal employees, including significant new investments to rebuild the IRS under the Control Inflation Act,” he said.
“When it comes to treating federal employees with respect, valuing their service and investing in their work, Kamala Harris is the clear choice. She shares our values and our commitment to ensuring the federal government works for all Americans,” NTEU National President Doreen Greenwald said in a statement.
As has been pointed out, Media Research CenterThe Biden-Harris-backed Defeat Inflation Act would increase the IRS budget by $80 billion over 10 years, allowing it to hire an additional 87,000 employees.
Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz has warned about the Biden-Harris Administration's plans to expand the IRS, writing in a September Fox News op-ed, “Currently, the Biden-Harris Administration's FY 2025 budget proposal requests an additional $104 billion for the IRS, eight times its annual budget. This comes just two years after Congress appropriated seven times the IRS's annual budget. What on earth is going on?”
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A sign outside the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters in Washington, DC (Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
X users saw the IRS endorsement as a bad sign: Conservative digital strategist Greg Price wrote, “If the IRS, the FBI, Wall Street, Iran, Putin, the military-industrial complex, the New York Times, Iran, 100 former McCain interns, and Dick Cheney all want one candidate to win, then for the love of God, vote for the other candidate.”
Commentator and podcast host Comfortably Smaug slammed the Harris campaign for proudly flaunting the endorsement, writing, “The fact that the IRS is unionizing is horrifying in itself, let alone that Kamala Harris thinks endorsing the IRS is a good thing.”
“All of the worst people in the world are supporting Kamala. Weird,” wrote “Being Libertarian,” a prominent libertarian X account.
X-account “The Redheaded Libertarian” asked, “Was Satan unavailable?”
“IRS employees endorsed Kamala,” wrote conservative podcast duo The Hodge Twins, adding multiple red flag emojis.
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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