Trump is continuing to ignore the fact that some appointees serve for a set term, to insulate them from politics. Trump does not want his appointees to be insulated from his control. The current IRS commissioner’s term expires in 2027 but Trump announced his replacement today.
The same thing happened with the FBI. The incumbent, Christopher Wray, was appointed by Trump in 2017 to replace James Comey, who was fired by Trump. Wray is supposed to serve ten years but Trump has announced his choice, which suggests that he intends to fire Wray.
Trump’s choice for IRS Commissioner is Billy Long, a former Congressman from Missouri who never served on the tax-writing committee.
President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Wednesday that he would nominate Billy Long, formerly a Republican congressman representing Missouri, to lead the Internal Revenue Service, effectively pledging to fire the tax collector’s current leader, a Biden appointee.
Mr. Trump’s choice, announced on his social media website, would shake up the I.R.S. at a pivotal moment. The Biden administration has poured billions of dollars into modernizing the agency and beefing up its tax collection efforts in an effort to improve customer service and crack down on tax cheats.
In 2022, President Biden chose Daniel Werfel, a former management consultant and civil servant who had worked in both Democratic and Republican administrations, to lead the overhaul of the I.R.S. His term was set to last until 2027.
Republicans have deeply opposed the Biden administration’s vision for the tax agency, which included providing roughly $80 billion in supplemental funding to the I.R.S. over a decade. G.O.P. lawmakers successfully pushed to cancel $20 billion of that money, and are eyeing further cuts. The I.R.S. is unpopular with the public, and Republicans have long attacked it as invasive and inept.
Additional funding for the I.R.S. helps raise the money for the government by more effectively enforcing tax laws and requiring Americans to pay the taxes they owe, according to budget experts.
Mr. Long, a former auctioneer, did not serve on the House tax-writing committee during his time in Congress. But he did put his auctioneering skills to use while in Washington….
Presidents do not typically select new I.R.S. commissioners when they come into office, and the Senate will have to confirm Mr. Long. President Biden waited for the term of Mr. Trump’s first choice to lead the tax agency, Charles P. Rettig, to end before selecting Mr. Werfel.
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Sometimes I do wish the blue states seceded just so I could watch the United Red States’ credit rating go down the toilet.
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Me too. But I want them to secede. No wishing. Then let the shooting begin.
Most of the red states will end up with dark blue flags with TRUMP in white letters. The rest will fly the stars and stripes with fewer stars.
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Yeah, some gallows humor.
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Weird, this comment was responding to another comment that has disappeared.
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I think/hope Trump has a bigger fight with Senate Republicans than he realizes when he starts trying to eliminate Biden programs that have apparently benefited red states even more than blue states. We have to make sure that Republicans are very aware of what their states stand to lose.
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Looks like a grifter IRS guy for sure.
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Good grief.
Trumps sure knows how to pick unmentionables and deplorables, just like him.
Guess he needs reflections of himself to feel alive. Trump is a very sick person.
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When Trump makes nominations like this, he isn’t thumbing his nose at folks like us. Trump is thumbing his nose at the people who voted for him! Trump has made fools out of them, and if we had actual journalists instead of liberal media stenographers, the daily narrative would be amplifying the fears of a random Trump voter who knows he got conned.
Trump thinks his supporters are as stupid as the people who paid him thousands and thousands of dollars to learn how to get rich at Trump’s fake university! He makes these appointments to show his rich billionaire backers that he is smart and his voters are so stupid that he can cut the programs that benefit them and use their tax payments to enrich his billionaire pals and the people who voted for him will let him do it to them. He believes that when you are Trump, you can do anything you want to his supporters, and they will let him to it to them.
Trump is certainly right that he can do anything he wants to his supporters and no liberal media journalist would ever write anything that might make his supporters know that their disappointment was valid.
Trump could end Social Security, and the NYT would no doubt run this narrative in 500 news articles: Trump “gets” those elite Democrats by ending Social Security; Supporters rejoice at their “win”
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“Yee-ha” is not sound fiscal policy.
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This appointment is the will of all the billionaire donor tax cheats that will rob us with impunity. All Biden’s efforts to collect taxes from the wealthy on behalf of the American people will be for naught.
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