SCANDAL BLOWBACK? The Hill: Acting IRS chief looks to cancel staff bonuses. “Danny Werfel, who took over the reins at the IRS in May, told staffers that across-the-board spending cuts had required bonuses be suspended elsewhere in the federal bureaucracy, and that agency employees serving under union contracts shouldn’t be treated any differently. But while the tax-collecting agency remains under fire for its targeting of conservative groups, Werfel also said scrapping the bonuses was not a comment on the work staffers were doing.”

Uh huh.