[defrost]

That's a mandatory guaranteed $8bn per annum funding for an operation that for the past decade has run at approx $14 bn per annum operating costs, so there still needs to be annual discretionary allocations to keep the IRS afloat at "normal" levels.

Recently the costs have increased to $16 bn per annum as part of an expansion to collect more of the inferred unpaid (avoided) taxes.

[crooked-v]

Or in other words, we were paying that already, and this is just the return so far on removing some of the hoops the organization has to jump through to cover expenses.