There’s nothing left to cut
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Dalrymple didn’t comment on any specific budget cut that’s been reported — The New York times said by 14 percent — but no matter the amount, a cut of any kind “would be devastating.” “We’ve sustained the largest percentage of budget cuts of any federal agency since 2010 to present, so literally any budget cut for us would be devastating, and it would affect service for taxpayers. It would absolutely affect all the compliance work we do; audits, collections work we do, etc., would all be impacted by that. We are not at a point where there is any fat left to cut at the IRS, in my view,” he said.