The former US representative Billy Long, before the Senate Finance Committee at his hearing as Irs Commissioner on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, counts (Screenshot from the Committee -Webcast)
Washington -the former US representative of Missouri, Billy Long, is now head of the Internal Revenue Service after the US Senate approved its nomination on Thursday.
Senators separated to party lines, 53-44To confirm the Republican who worked in the US house from 2011 to 2023 and had previously spent several years as a talk radiom presenter.
Long heads for the IRS, after the agency has lost more than 11,000 employees or 11% of its workforce, either by postponement or through mass fire report From the general inspector of the agency.
In a social media post after Longs confirmation, the Republican Senator Mike Crapo, chairman of the Senate Committee for Finance, congratulated the recent IRS commissioner.
“I look forward to working with him to modernize the IRS and improve customer service for taxpayers,” wrote crapo from Idaho.
The Long’s nomination process was overshadowed by a democratically conducted investigation by the former legislature on a fraudulent tribal tax credit.
For a long time, misconduct occurred during his hearing on May 20.
Before the vote on Thursday, Senator Ron Wyden, the Supreme Democrat in the Finanz Committee, said that a decision about a long time should be “an easy no”.
“It is one corruption bomb after the other with the former congress member Billy Long. Fake tax credits. Failed tax advice. Shadowed political donations that just went in the pocket.
The IRS is commissioned to collect tax revenue and enforce the tax code.
