One of President Trump’s objectives over the next four years is to have US revenues from tariffs become so massive that the Internal Revenue Service is no longer needed, his commerce secretary revealed Wednesday.

The commerce secretary said Trump's aim is to "abolish the Internal Revenue Service and let all the outsiders pay."

A tearful executive at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service told staffers on Thursday that about 6,000 employees would be fired, a person familiar with the matter said, in a move that would eliminate roughly 6% of the agency's workforce in the midst of the busy tax-filing season.

The layoffs at the Internal Revenue Service came alongside additional firings at the Transportation Security Administration and the C.I.A.

In St. Louis, Mo., at least 19 call center employees and two people working in facilities and security were affected, a NTEU Chapter 14 representative said.“These layoffs are arbitrary and unlawful, and NTEU will keep fighting until every wrongful termination is reversed,

The Internal Revenue Service is expected to begin laying off around 6,000 staffers on Thursday, part of the push by the Trump administration to cut down the size of the federal workforce, according to media reports.

The IRS is cutting more than 6,000 jobs this week, as part of the Trump administration's downsizing of the overall federal workforce. The job cuts at the IRS come in the middle of the tax-filing season.

Mass layoffs by the Internal Revenue Service across the country impacted dozens of workers in Denver on Thursday. The IRS was planning to lay off roughly 7,000 workers in Washington and around the country,

A group of Internal Revenue Service workers in Philadelphia were among those laid off Thursday within the federal agency, which already struggles to answer taxpayer calls in a timely manner, according to a union representative.

A number of Internal Revenue Service in Denver are being let go as part of mass layoffs across the country Thursday.