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Congress has passed legislation that will fund the hiring of more than 80,000 new IRS personnel. Some of them will be armed.
Here’s a video clip of the Assistant Vice Deputy Under-Secretary of Accountant Armaments describing the weapons that will be provided to the new IRS agents…
(pubic domain video as published by CSPAN)
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Patsplaining - ***Spoiler***
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All of the first sentence is true -- Congress passed that law, the IRS plans to hire those personnel, and some of them will be armed.
But the second paragraph is not true. The title, "Assistant Vice Deputy Under-Secretary of Accountant Armaments" is a made-up title. The video actually shows a guy from the Pentagon listing some of the armaments that the US is sending to Ukraine to help them fight against the Russian military, which has invaded their country. The video was cut to exclude the parts where the guy identifies the list as going to Ukraine.
By attaching that video to this toot, it makes it look like the IRS will be using relatively heavy arms, when in fact they most likely will only have light arms, like sidearms, shotguns, rifles, etc. to use for ordinary law enforcement.