The IRS plans to lay off roughly 7,000 workers in Washington and around the country beginning Thursday, according to an AP source.

The IRS will lay off 7,000 workers starting Thursday, primarily affecting probationary employees in compliance roles across the U.S.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service will begin laying off about 6,000 employees on Thursday, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the plans. (Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington) Copyright 2025 Thomson Reuters.

I assume at this point almost every American is aware that Elon Musk’s “DOGE” group has been investing itself at the Office of Personnel Management and other

The cuts targeting mostly new and recently promoted workers are part of the administration's push to shrink the federal work force.

Hundreds of IRS workers have received a pink slip as part of the Trump administration's spending cuts. "This is particularly true if Russia assesses that the US cannot or will not support the European NATO countries in a war with Russia.