Why does the IRS need $80 billion? Just look at its cafeteria.

… Taxpayers are trapped in this time warp because Congress has systemically underinvested in the IRS. Its funding was cut for most of the past decade, despite the agency receiving evermore responsibilities: stimulus checks, child tax credit payments, Obamacare enforcement, foreign bank account tracking and, lately, hunting down Russian yachts. Without reliable, long-term funding guarantees, the IRS has struggled to upgrade its systems…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2022/irs-pipeline-tax-return-delays/