Rick Scott: don’t apply for IRS jobs because Republicans will defund them

Republican senator also claims in open letter that Democrats plan to defund the actual police and create an IRS super-police force'

The Republican senator Rick Scott has warned Americans not to apply for new positions with the Internal Revenue Service because he says his party will defund them if it takes Congress later this year.

Scott, from Florida and head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, also misrepresented the nature of the positions in several ways. He claimed in an open letter that Democrats planned to defund the actual police and create an IRS super-police force".