The former US representative Billy Long, before the Senate Finance Committee at his hearing as a representative of the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, is the question of (Screenshot from the Committee Webcast)
Washington – President Donald Trump, the former Republican of Missouri’s US Republicans, Billy Long from his post as head of the Internal Revenue Service, becomes less than two months after his confirmation on Friday.
According to an official of the White House, Finance Minister Scott Bessent is commissioned as commissioner to the agency to enforce tax law and to collect income. Long’s sudden departure was first reported by the New York Times.
Long wrote on social media that Trump will now appoint him to US Ambassador in Iceland. The White House confirmed Long’s statement.
“It is an honor to serve my friend, President Trump, and I am pleased to take on my up-to-date role as ambassador Iceland. Long wrote.
The former legislature of the legislator comes because the IRS has to begin to implement changes to the Tax Code Falsified by the Senate Republicans and only signed by Trump last month. This includes transient tax reliefs for some tilt and overtime as well as eternal changes to the tax credit for children and several tax credits for immaculate energy.
The agency, which submits the lion’s share of the income of the country by individual taxpayers, lost more than 11,000 employees or 11% of its workforce, either by postponed resignation or through mass shots by trial workers since Trump has started its second term report From the general inspector of the agency.
Confirmed in June
Long, who represented Missouri in the US house from 2011 to 2023 and then worked for many years as a talk radio presenter, was confirmed From the US Senat in A 53-44 Vote on June 12th.
The former legislature and media personality were confronted (*2*)Test During his confirmation process of Senate Democrats, who demanded an investigation of Long’s work with two companies, Capital Edge strategies and White River, where he had supposedly deleted fraudulent tax credits.
The Democrats of the Senate also examined donations for his slow Senate campaign after Trump announced in December to install the former Congress Member at the head of the IRS.
For a long time, misconduct declined and received the support of all Senate Republicans, including the Senate Committee for Financial President Mike Crapo from Idaho, who praised Longs to “implement a top-down culture change at the agency”.
“One corruption bomb after the other”
Senator Ron Wyden, the top democrat of the committee, said in a statement on Friday that “it was obvious that this would end badly, but every Republican of the Senate voted to confirm his nomination anyway.”
“He did not even take two months at the job. We didn’t forget that there was no job when Trump announced Long’s nomination. Danny Werfel, an experienced leader with fans under Democrats and Republicans, had left years in his tenure,” said Oregon’s legislator.
After confirming Long, Wyden said that the vote should have been a “simple no” for Republicans.
“It is one corruption bomb after the other with the former congress member Billy Long,” he said in June.
States Newsroom has apparently contacted a Long phone number for a comment.
