Is the Internal Revenue Service slated to become the next Department of Education, withering to a shell of its former self? President Donald Trump’s new appointee might make it so.
The Associated Press reported on Thursday that former Missouri Rep. Billy Long, a Republican, has been confirmed to lead the IRS as its new commissioner.
That jeopardizes the IRS’s current standing given that Long sponsored legislation while in Congress to abolish the agency.
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The Treasury Department’s Deputy Secretary Michael Faulkender, who temporarily served as acting commissioner of the IRS, sent an email to employees of the agency, sounding hopeful about what Long can do.
Long “will be critically important to the IRS at this time of transformation, as we build a modern IRS that will
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