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Steny Hoyer: “Gutting IRS enforcement and reducing funding for election…”

Featuring: Steny Hoyer, Democratic | U.S. House Maryland, 5th Congressional District

Hoyer: If We Abdicate Our Responsibility as a Coequal Branch of Government, We Will No Longer Be One

Published May 21, 2026 | Video Starts at 01:52

No cops on the beat. It's not just this bill, of course. We marked up the FSGG bill in April, Gutting IRS enforcement and reducing funding for election security. We say we want to have people operating effectively, but if you have no hearings and you have staff that is not experienced and effective, you're not going to have oversight cutting 5% from the office of Government Ethics while it remains dangerously headless. (01:52–01:57)

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