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In case you missed this piece of Project 2025 government destruction, the IRS just sent out a wave of letters to more than 500,000 current and former federal employees, warning them of outstanding tax debt.

 

Over half a million.

 

Each letter began with the bold message: “Urgent: You have an outstanding tax issue.” But here’s the kicker, almost all of these people are already on payment plans or owe no taxes.

 

So why would our upstanding government do this?

 

Well, on July 15, the Office of Personnel Management got a new director, Scott Kupor. You know, billionaire, private equity investor type. Buy companies, downsize the workers, sell it off for parts. What did Mr. Kupor immediately do? He put in rules about proselytizing and converting folks at work. And he proposed a new rule to make it easier to fire federal employees who don’t meet certain “suitability” standards. What makes someone “unsuitable” you might ask. Failure to meet “generally applicable legal obligations” like filing and paying taxes.

 

While IRS privacy laws used to bar the agency from sharing individual tax records with other departments, this mass mailing lays the groundwork for dismissals under the new guidelines.

 

Of course, as Yoda would say, “The deception is strong in this one.” So, the letter doesn’t explicitly threaten consequences, it just gently reminds federal workers that Uncle Sam has his fingers on the termination trigger.

 

The workers themselves have no way of knowing if this is just an overdue notice or yet another warning shot tied to a new purge. Political targeting is now the favored sport of the Trump regime. Wholly consistent with Project 2025, which he had never heard of.

 

January 20, 2029 can’t come fast enough.

 

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Heather Cox Richardson