The Trump Administration Might Shake Up The IRS And The Left Is Freaking

Posted • October 16, 2025: In a report described as an exclusive, complete with anonymous “people familiar with the matter” sources, The Wall Street Journal is claiming that President Trump wants to restructure an IRS division to go after his political enemies. The report is titled “Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups.” The rest of the legacy media is following suit with the same framing and, in some cases, a little more projection. […] Rather than conduct investigations of its own into alleged wrongdoing on the part of any of the IRS’s potential targets, the Journal appears to be opting for the “Republicans pounce” story angle, which is a favorite in lazy and vindictive leftist media circles. The WSJ seems to have forgotten that President Barack Obama’s IRS went after Tea Party groups, and while there were investigations and apologies much later, the damage to the Tea Party movement had already been done. What’s that they say about it being better to beg forgiveness than ask permission? Obama knows.

While federal law makes it a felony for the administration and anyone outside of the Attorney General's office to request an investigation of an individual taxpayer, that doesn’t mean Trump or anyone else must turn a blind eye to the corruption all around them and be quiet about it. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who oversees the IRS, went on record in an interview on "The Charlie Kirk Show" with current host Andrew Kolvet that indeed, Treasury is making lists of potential culprits behind the left-wing violence that is increasingly plaguing the nation. His thinking is that they can weaken the organizations behind the violence through better scrutiny of their money flows. “We have started to compile lists of the other networks, and there’s a long record here,” he said. “This is mission-critical for us now… We are operationalizing this here at Treasury.” (…)

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Wall Street Journal: Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-irs-investigations-left-leaning-groups-democratic-donors-612a095e