The former US representative Billy Long testifies before the Senate Finance Committee at the hearing confirming as an internal commissioner for revenue services on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
Washington – President Donald Trump will remove the former Republican Republican representative of Missouri Billy Long from his position as the head of the internal service of Revenue less than two months after his confirmation, according to the Friday of the White House.
According to the White House official, the treasury secretary Scott Bessent will enter as a commissioner of an agency whose task is to enforce tax law and collect revenues. The sudden departure of Long was first reported by the New York Times.
He wrote for a long time in social media that Trump would now appoint him as an Ambassador of the USA in Iceland. The White House confirmed the Long statement.
(*2*) He wrote for a long time.
Ouster of the former legislator appears because IRS must start implementing changes to the Tax Code defending by the Senate Republicans and signed by Trump last month. They include transient tax relief for some tip and overtime employees, as well as enduring changes in tax elige for children and several tax breaks for pure energy.
The agency, which collects the lion’s share of the country’s income from individual taxpayers, has lost over 11,000 employees, i.e. 11% of its workforce, or through deferred resignations or mass burnout of trial workers since Trump began its second term, in accordance with May 2 report from the General Inspector of the Agency.
Confirmed in June
Long, who represented Missouri in an American house in 2011–2023, and then worked for many years as a radio host, was confirmed by the US Senate in 53-44 Vote on June 12.
Former legislator and media personality observation During the process of confirmation by the Democrats Senate, who demanded the investigation of Long’s work with two companies, Capital Edge and White River strategies, where he allegedly sold false tax relief.
The Senate Democrats also study donations that have long received the non -existent Senate campaign after Trump announced in December that he intended to install the former Congressmen at the head of IRS.
Long refused all offenses and received the support of all Republicans Senate, including the Senate financial commission Mike Crapo from Idaho, who praised Long’s promise that “he implemented a top -down change of culture in the agency.”
“One corruption bomb after another”
Senator Ron Publisne, the highest democrat of the committee, said in a statement on Friday that “it was obvious that it would end, but every Republican of the Senate still voted with confirmation of his nomination.”
“He did not survive even two months of work. Let’s not forget that there was no vacancy at a time when Trump announced the nomination of Long. Danny Werfel, a qualified leader with fans among Democrats and Republicans, he had years for his term of office,” said the legislator Oregon.
After confirming Long, the published said that voting should be “easy no” for Republicans.
“This is one corruption bomb after the other with the former Billy Long Congressman,” he said in June.
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