Fencing and Caution tape at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington, DC, on January 19, 2022.STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images The new spending bill from Senate Democrats will funnel nearly $80 billion to the IRS over the next decade. The agency has been understaffed and underfunded, and backed up with unprocessed tax returns. The new funding could ease that and amp up tax audits on wealthy Americans and corporations. For years, the IRS has been sagging under the weight of underfunding, understaffing, and literal mountains of paper.