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Tom Barrett: “We have to fire the 87,000 IRS agents that they hired.”

Featuring: Tom Barrett, Republican | U.S. House, Michigan, District 7

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Tom Barrett on America Reports

Published | Video Starts at 02:52

And because of Joe Biden's hellbent intent to shut down pipelines and Alyssa Slotkins joining him in that everybody's heating costs are going to be higher in Michigan. So we have to stop and reverse the trend of what they're doing. We have to fire the 87,000 IRS agents that they hired. We got to stop sending stimulus checks to people in federal prison. We've got to claw back some of these disastrous policies. We've got to secure our border and clamp down on crime. (02:52–02:56)

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