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The Internal Revenue Service may bring back fired employees and hire new ones after aggressively cutting positions under the Trump Administration this year.

Government Executive, a publication focused on the federal government, published portions of an email from the IRS human resources department.

The email said, IRS has identified areas where staffing reductions created a potential gap in mission-critical expertise.

KSHB 41 News has not been able to independently confirm the email. Requests for information to the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service went unanswered.

Shannon Ellis, president of the local chapter of the National Treasury Employees Union, said she hadnt seen the email.

Ellis estimates more than 1,000 people have left the

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