With all the other world events passing by our eyes, did anyone else notice that the guy who runs Social Security has also been appointed to run IRS, but they're not going to call him the Commissioner, they're just going to call him Chief Exculpatory Officer, or something like that?  

Meanwhile I'm sorry, I forgot to wish you all a Happy New Fiscal Year.  

Funny that they didn't give the IRS job to RFK.  He is doing such a bang up job at Health and Human Services, who knows how long before he could get the IRS running just like HHS.

Bloomberg reports:

The IRS will furlough just under half of its staff and pause most of the agency’s taxpayer services as gridlock in Congress pushes the government shutdown into its second week.

The plan released Wednesday, which calls for about 34,000 workers to be furloughed, represents a sharp departure from the first week of the shutdown. That outline allowed the agency’s 74,299 employees to continue working with pay by using leftover funding from the Biden administration.

The agency’s original shutdown contingency plan only stretched through Tuesday.

In a letter to staff Wednesday, the agency said furloughed workers would be paid after the shutdown ends, citing a 2019 law requiring back pay. The move contradicts a White House Budget Office draft memo saying that workers aren’t guaranteed pay during a shutdown and public musings from President Donald Trump that not all federal workers would be compensated.

As long as I was here, I thought I would check out the new feature.  I just couldn't decide what was the best of the best, so I just had to click them all. 😀

Can you tell us, kind coyote, when the IRS will reopen next year? 

(I thought I'd be the first to ask...)

Reopen?!!   🤣🤣🤣