Source: New York Post
“Newly appointed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claims his family was targeted by the outgoing Biden administration with an audit from the IRS. ‘Of course the outgoing Biden IRS rushed an ‘audit’ of the incoming SecDef. Total sham,’ Hegseth wrote on his official X account Monday, including a photo of an IRS document addressed to him and his wife. The document said the couple owes [sic] the government $33,558.16, which needs to be paid immediately to avoid further penalties. It’s unclear what year or years the document is addressing. ‘The party of ‘norms’ and ‘decency’ strikes again. We will never back down,’ Hegseth added in his tweet. He is not the first cabinet appointee to receive a letter from the IRS. In 2009, it was famously revealed that President Obama’s Treasury Secretary appointee, Timothy Geithner, owed [sic] the IRS about $35,000 in unpaid Social Security and Medicaid taxes.” (02/17/25)