A Fox News segment on Your World with Neil Cavuto attacked a new rule giving the IRS power to revoke the passports of Americans with delinquent tax bills as government overreach by the Obama administration, ignoring that the rule came from a bill passed by the Republican-controlled Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support.

During the December 22 edition of Your World with Neil Cavuto, host Cavuto spoke with Republican strategist Lisa Boothe about the IRS rule which allows the agency to revoke passports from those who owe $50,000 or more in overdue federal income taxes. Cavuto said he had “serious issues” with the rule and criticized the IRS for “ignoring ... terror issues” while “going with far greater zeal after Americans who may be in the rears on their taxes for perfectly legitimate reasons.” Boothe agreed, blaming the Obama administration for the rule, and calling the IRS, “way too big, way too corrupt, and wields entirely too much power”:

NEIL CAVUTO (HOST): You owe, you're out. The IRS is revoking passports for those delinquent on their taxes to the tone of $50,000 or more. But what if you're fighting the IRS and you have a legitimate beef and you don't think you will end up owing $50,000 or anything? Well be that as it may, that rule is going into effect. But it got us thinking. It happens sometimes. Why not the same deal going after terrorists or those with terror ties because when it comes to that sort of thing, the IRS is all hands off and that worries Lisa Boothe. 

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I couldn't believe this, first of all, the IRS thing, because I have serious issues with that. People legitimately fight the IRS on claims. But this is a whole other thing. You're going after citizens in this country. You're just bypassing those who might wish ill to this country. Weird. What's going on? 

LISA BOOTHE: Weill Neil the juxtaposition is mind-boggling because this is an administration who has actively fought against the idea of revoking passports for American citizens who are fighting alongside with ISIS. The administration has even said on the grounds of the Americans have a right to freely travel. So it's a little mind-boggling how the IRS clearly has no problem with that. And not to mention just that angle, Neil. It's also really upsetting, considering the fact that just the size and scope of the IRS alone. The IRS is already way too big, way too corrupt, and wields entirely too much power. 

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CAVUTO: And now we have the IRS ignoring such terror issues and ties here and going with far greater zeal after Americans who might be in arrears on their taxes for perfectly legitimate reasons. That, that's weird. 

BOOTHE: It is weird. And Neil I think it speaks to the reason why almost 60 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama's handling of ISIS and you've got 70 percent of Americans who believe the country is on the wrong track because of the ridiculousness of the federal government, the ridiculousness of the Obama administration in particular. And Neil we're also talking about an organization who in seemingly intentionally went after conservatives with various ideologies --

CAVUTO: Exactly.

BOOTHE: -- based off of ideology. And Neil an organization that is so dumb, an organization that has sent out the wrong forms to 800,000 Obamacare employees who completely lost tens of millions of dollars of an Obamacare slush fund. It just went missing. So we're talking about an incredibly incompetent agency as it is.

Both Cavuto and Boothe neglected to mention that the IRS provision was approved overwhelmingly by the GOP-controlled Congress. The IRS rule was a provision of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, which passed both chambers of the Republican-controlled Congress this December, getting more than 80 percent approval in the Senate and House.