White House: IRS will issue tax refunds despite shutdown

[mystery-ak]

White House: IRS will issue tax refunds despite shutdown
By Jordan Fabian - 01/07/19 03:45 PM EST

The Internal Revenue Service will make tax refunds even if the government remains shut down when they are set to be issued, the Trump administration said on Monday.

“Tax refunds will go out,” Russell Vought, the acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told reporters during a briefing.

Vought said the move was a change from past shutdowns and that the appropriate agencies would issue further guidance.

Issuing tax refunds might lower pressure on Trump and his GOP allies in Congress to abandon their demand for $5.7 billion in border wall funding and reopen the government.

“We have been trying to make this as painless as possible consistent with the law,” said Vought.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/424208-white-house-irs-will-issue-tax-refunds-despite-shutdown

[Wingnut]

This is good news.  Takes away a big Rat talking point.  All they have left now is to troot out the poor starving children and seniors eating dog food  because of the Food Stamp program is not funded....

[Right_in_Virginia]

This President is looking for ways to protect Americans from Schumers shutdown.

Under the same circumstances Obama would have stopped the refunds.