“Two years after scandal, the IRS still struggling”

WaPo:

The Senate Finance Committee will release on Wednesday a bipartisan report on the 2013 scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups.

Much will be made about what led to the controversy, but more than two years later the agency appears no better able to handle the growing crush of political nonprofits raising many millions this election season.

The agency has shuffled its staffing, including the high-profile retirement of Lois Lerner, and taken steps to better manage the division that oversees nonprofit applications. Those moves have decreased the chances that the specific targeting leading to the scandal could be repeated. But the agency is frozen by a hobbled budget and hostile relationship with the committees that oversee it.

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