President Donald Trump Nearly 90,000 IRS agents hired under the Biden administration have been moved to the border to patrol the region and are armed with rifles.
“On Day One, I immediately stopped hiring any new IRS agents. They have hired, or tried to hire, 88,000 new workers to go after you. And we're developing a plan to either terminate all of them or not,” Trump said during a rally at the Circa Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday night. “Maybe we will take them to the border, and I think we will take them to the border.”
He continued: “Where they are allowed to carry weapons, you know, they are very strong with weapons, but these people are allowed to carry weapons, so we will probably take them to the border.” Some IRS special agents are permitted to carry firearms as part of their duties, according to the IRS Code, 26 U.S. Code § 7608.
Trump Join the supporters in Las Vegas This weekend after touring the devastation in North Carolina left by Hurricane Helen in September, as well as California, he toured Los Angeles and met with local leaders about the wildfires that swept through the region this month.
President Donald Trump speaks about the economy during an event at Circa Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Saturday, January 25, 2025. (AP Photo/John Lusher)
While floating transporting thousands of IRS agents to the border, Trump also proposed ending the income tax across the board, saying his plans on tariffs could close fiscal gaps.
“How about no taxes,” he said to cheers, laughing. “You can do it. You know if the tariffs go the way I think they will, something like that might happen, if you want to know the truth.”
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“For years, from 1870 to 1913, we didn't have an income tax. We had, all we had were tariffs, where foreign countries came in and stole our jobs, stole our companies, stole our products. They tore us apart and you know, they would do the numbers and then we were gone.” To the customs tariff, the customs tariff system. The tariff system made a lot of money. “That was when we were the wealthiest from 1870 to 1930. Then we came up with — brilliantly — the income tax,” he said, explaining that the Great Depression rocked the United States shortly after it moved away from the tariff system in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Migrants try to pass through barbed wire after crossing the border into El Paso, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Democrats in 2022 approved $80 billion in funding for the IRS, including the hiring of nearly 87,000 new agents over a 10-year period as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. President Joe Biden signed the legislation into law that year.
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Trump Vegas The speech focused on taxeslistening to his June campaign rally in the state when he first announced he would eliminate taxes on tips.
President Donald Trump leaves after speaking about the economy during an event at Circa Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Saturday, January 25, 2025. (AP Photo/John Lusher)
“Any worker that relies on tips (as income), your tips will be 100% yours,” Trump said Saturday in the city, which is staffed by service workers at hotels, casinos and upscale restaurants.
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Trump also pointed to a handful of his campaign promises Already unfolding into real resultsincluding withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO) and dismantling some federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices.
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“We got rid of the woke crap,” Trump said Saturday. “A lot of bullshit…you know, these people were terrified of it. I'll tell you, these companies, running these big companies, were terrified of it.”
Fox News Digital's Andrea Margolis contributed to this report.
