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Mike Erickson: “None of that's going towards like border security or…”

Featuring: Mike Erickson, Former Candidate, U.S. House Oregon, District 6

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Mike Erickson stumps for Oregon's 6th District seat

Published | Video Starts at 02:46

I mean, what it does do is it hires 87,000 more IRS agents to go out there and challenge people's tax returns in this country. And that's 87,000 or $80 billion being spent on the IRS. And None of that's going towards like border security or homeland security. Right now, based on this bill that just got passed and signed by Biden that it's going to add, it'll be almost as big as homeland security, the irs. (02:46–02:51)

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Claims no funds from the Inflation Reduction Act are allocated to border or homeland security.

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