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  Good morning.

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  It's Thursday, March 6th.

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  I'm Shemitah Basu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  On today's show, the debate over where to put the country's nuclear waste.

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  Consumers are taking the risk of plastics more seriously

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  and how scientists are trying to revive the woolly mammoth.

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  But first, to the Internal Revenue Service.

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  Tax season is upon us.

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  But roughly 7,000 employees were recently fired by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's Doge team.

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  They've said their goal is to reduce waste, fraud and abuse in the government.

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  The IRS has been hit especially hard by these cuts, ProPublica reports,

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  because it did a lot of hiring and training in 2024,

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  which means a lot of people were still

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  in their probationary a few weeks ago when they found out they were being cut.

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  Last year's hiring wave came after Congress had underfunded the agency

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  for a good part of the last decade,

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  which led to chronic understaffing, poor customer service and plummeting audit rates.

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  ProPublica spoke with more than a dozen current and former IRS employees,

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  most of whom worked for the Large Business and International Division,

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