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A California Republican lawmaker and Navy veteran is mounting an effort to get military service members a fair wage by redistributing the $80 billion in President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act that Democrats gave to the Internal Revenue Service.

Rep. Mike Garcia, the only Republican representing Los Angeles County in Congress, introduced the Prioritizing Our Troops Over Tax Collector’s Act on Tuesday evening.

It aims to give every service member $15 per hour for an annual wage of $31,200.

Currently there are 23,000 members of the US military who are on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, according to figures cited by Garcia.

‘That is 23,000 too many,’ Garcia said in a statement introducing his bill to re-allocate the $80 billion.

‘Providing our military personnel with an adequate base pay raise should be commonsense.'

While the Democrat-controlled House is unlikely to support a bill that deals a blow to Biden's agenda, its introduction just before the November midterms suggests the GOP is looking to make dismantling Democrat spending bills a key priority if they win back Congress.

A House GOP aide told DailyMail.com, 'I think that this bill is the start of a two-pronged strategy for the Republicans once they hit the majority.'

It's aimed at redistributing funds in President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act that are aimed at enhancing the Internal Revenue Service

The strategy is comprised of having 'to find a way to halt that funding to the IRS' and 'to get servicemembers better pay, the aide said.

Under Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act, the $80 billion is going toward enhancing the IRS including hiring 87,000 new employees over the next decade to replace a dwindling workforce.

But Republicans are wary that the surge in resources will be used to crack down on the middle class, millions of whom are already struggling with decades-high spikes in consumer prices.

The Biden administration has denied this, with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sending a letter to the IRS instructing them not to use the added resources to audit anyone making under $400,000 per year.

‘These servicemembers put their lives on the line for our country, they should be paid adequately for their service. Our servicemembers are our nation’s secret weapon and it’s time we treat them as such,' Garcia said in his statement.

He also cited the military’s increasingly dire personnel shortage as reason to move on the bill.

‘As we see record-low military retention rates and growing recruiting shortfalls, this is an urgent issue that impacts not just the well-being of our brave heroes, but also our national security,’ Garcia said.

Democrats' tax and spending bill allocates $80 billion to the IRS for measures that include hiring 87,000 new employees over the next decade

August's inflation rate of 8.3% represented a drop from a 40-year high of 9.1% in June and 8.5% in July ¿ but showed that inflation is still running hot and well above the Fed's target rate of 2%

The number of service members on food stamps stands to grow even more after the US Army updated its guidance last month to urge troops struggling with inflation to sign up for SNAP benefits.

‘With inflation affecting everything from gas prices to groceries to rent, some Soldiers and their families are finding it harder to get by on the budgets they’ve set and used before,’ guidance from Sergeant Maj. Michael Grinston read, according to Fox News.

‘Soldiers of all ranks can seek guidance, assistance, and advice through the Army’s Financial Readiness Program.’

Meanwhile the cost of consumer goods has been rising at a pace not seen in roughly four decades.

Inflation hit a 40-year high of over 9 percent in June.

Though it's subsided to 8.3 percent in August, according to the most recently available data, high food and housing costs continue to be a financial headache for most Americans.

Garcia, a former Navy fighter pilot currently representing California's 25th Congressional District, is running for the newly-redrawn 27th district against Democrat Christy Smith.

Smith, who has lost to Garcia twice before, is trying to build support off of left-wing outrage over the Supreme Court's reversal of federal abortion protections.