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Scott Bessent: “We hired some people back in specific areas. Not a lot of…”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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Published | Video Starts at 01:24

So we are just getting back to a more normalized level. So, Mr. Secretary, you had to hire a lot of those people back, right? We hired some people back in specific areas. Not a lot of those, sir. But how much did it cost to both first let people go and then go back and have to rehire a bunch of them again? It was not a bunch of them. (01:24–01:29)

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Asserts that the IRS rehired some employees in specific areas, but not many.

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