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She added she worked "really hard" in her job and, in between sending emails or finishing reports, she was taking care of apportionments, attending meetings and filling out forms.

The Inflation Reduction Act provided an $80 billion apportionment for the IRS aimed at reducing the national debt and providing more resources for the agency to audit ultrawealthy taxpayers.

That pause was excluded from the Friday bill, which extended current apportionments until March 14 and funded Democratic-backed disaster relief and farm aid packages.

Republicans in Nebraska are also considering a last-minute change to how the state divvies up Electoral College votes, seeking a winner-takes-all allocation over the current congressional district-based apportionment.

The bill is unlikely to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate, the White House opposes it and there are legal questions because the Constitution says all people should be counted during the apportionment process.