evidence: The Inflation Reduction Act includes $79 billion for the IRS. Social media posts misleadingly claim the IRS will now hire "87,000 new agents" to investigate average citizens. But most new hires will provide customer services, and enforcement efforts will be aimed at "high-income and corporate tax evaders," a Treasury Department spokesperson said. [...] Sen. Ted Cruz, in an interview on Fox News that was posted to Facebook, got it doubly wrong when he claimed that "87,000 new IRS agents" will be going after small businesses and regular Americans. [...] A Treasury Department report from May 2021 estimated that a similar $80 billion investment proposed in Biden’s American Families Plan would have allowed the IRS to modernize and restore the "IRS enforcement capability" in several ways — including by hiring 86,852 full-time employees. That’s where the claim about hiring "87,000 new agents" apparently comes from.