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  Congress Jan 15, 2019

  IRS Recalling 46,000 Workers to Handle Taxes as Shutdown Continues

  The Internal Revenue Service is recalling about 46,000 of its employees furloughed by the government shutdown — nearly 60 percent of its workforce — to handle tax returns and pay out refunds. The employees won’t be paid during the shutdown. With the official start of the tax filing season coming Jan. 28, the Trump administration has promised that taxpayers owed...