In its latest attack on DOGE’s cut in federal spending and staff reductions, PBS News Hour reporter Laura Barron-Lopez spoke on Monday with the recently resigned IRS commissioner Daniel Werfel. He delighted PBS as one of the seven authors of a February 24 New York Times essay, predictably against the Trump firings: “Trump Just Fired 6,700 I.R.S. Workers in the Middle of Tax Season. That’s a Huge Mistake.”
PBS dutifully crammed the hypothetical budget cut highway with awful-sounding blockades, and added an old-fashioned soak-the-rich twist.
She set up Werfel with an easy pitch: “Why do you see these layoffs as a mistake?”
Barron-Lopez’s rhetoric was more left-populist that objective journalist. But we should expect tax-funded television to despise “tax cheats.”
Werfel said something interesting at the end of his long answer: “….You collect more information about the person…
