Poll: Most Americans Want Money For New IRS Agents Redirected To U.S. Border Patrol

Immigrants walk handcuffed after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and being caught by the U.S. Border Patrol on December 7, 2015 near Rio Grande City, Texas. Border Patrol agents continue to capture hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants, even as the total numbers of those crossing has gone down. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

A majority of Americans want the funding for hiring 87,000 new IRS agents to be redirected to hiring U.S. Border Patrol agents instead, according to a new poll.

The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Biden on Aug. 16, includes $80 billion to hire new IRS agents — almost doubling the number of employees at the tax collection agency. A White House Fact Sheet explains the goal of hiring a new army of agents as “cracking down on large, profitable corporations with more than $1 billion in annual profits that currently get away with paying little to no federal income tax.”