Washington (AP) –
Former Congressman Billy Long in Missouri will be sworn in on Friday as Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and takes over an interviewed agency that he once abolished and has been burdened with steep personnel cuts and management sales since then.
Long won a confirmation in a 53-44 votes in the Senate last month
Long’s commissionership takes place after months of acting guides and massive staff cuts that have derailed the tax registration season next year. Tens of thousands of employees have voluntarily retired or were released as part of the efforts of the Trump government to reduce the size of the German Bundestial Bureaucracy by the efficiency of the Ministry of Government.
“In my first 90 days, I plan to ask my employee partners to develop a new culture here,” Long wrote in a message to IRS employees. “I am great in culture and endeavor to develop one that makes your life and life of taxpayers better.”
During the congress, where he served from 2011 to 2023, the Republican sponsored legislation to get rid of the IRS. For a long time, a former auctioneer and real estate agent has no background in the tax administration. According to his biography on the agency’s website, he also organized a radio talk show from 1999 to 2006, on which the IRS was always a heated topic.
Commercial secretary Howard Lutnick told Fox News in February that Trump’s goal is “the goal is to abolish the internal Revenue service and have all outsiders paid”, whereby refer to other countries. The president also has the idea of getting rid of the federal income tax and using tariffs to compensate for the difference.
The almost 900-page tax and expenditure calculation, which Trump signed in the early this month, contains tax cuts of around $ 4.5 trillion. This includes fresh tax deductions for tips, overtime and car loans as well as numerous business -related cuts.
The Trump party line has long been a long time. In 2022, he published a 30-second ad during an unsuccessful campaign for the US Senate in Missouri, which incorrectly claimed that the 2020 election was “manipulated” and “stolen” by Trump-Raupt that the president often appealed to himself.
During his offer of the Senate, a company worked for a long time that distributed fraudulent tax credits from the pandemic era of employee loyalty. He appeared before the Senate Finance Committee in May and contested any misconduct in connection with his participation in the system.
Democrats have requested a criminal investigation of the connections from Long to other alleged tax gaps. They also wrote to Long, and his companies associated with it, which described concerns about the unusually time -controlled contributions for Longs Defrit 2022 Senate Campaign Committee from Long 2022, shortly after Trump nominated him.
Long is not the only Trump representative who supports an agency whose administration became the agency he assigned.
Linda McMahon, the current education secretary, has repeatedly said that she was trying to get out of a job by closing the federal department and transferring her work to the States. The FBI director Kash Patel has proposed radical overhaul from the 117-year-old agency. And Rick Perry, Trump’s energy mucus in his first term, called for the abolition of the Energy Ministry during his offer for the nomination of the GOP president in 2012.
