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SouthBayDem

(32,883 posts)
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 03:26 PM Aug 8

Trump to remove Billy Long as IRS commissioner, Bessent named acting head, NYT reports

Source: Reuters

Aug 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is removing Billy Long as the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing four people familiar with the matter.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will serve as acting commissioner until a permanent replacement is in place, the newspaper said, citing a senior administration official.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-remove-billy-long-irs-commissioner-bessent-named-acting-head-nyt-reports-2025-08-08/



This is the entire article at this moment, telling of the Apprentice reboot no one asked for.
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hildegaard28

(729 posts)
1. When Republicans
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 03:28 PM
Aug 8

Are removed from power, we need to draft laws that say that one person can hold no more than one appointment at a time.

mahatmakanejeeves

(66,375 posts)
2. He was just sworn in, wasn't he? What gives?
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 03:30 PM
Aug 8

He hasn't even been on the job three weeks.

POLITICS
Billy Long sworn in as IRS commissioner, taking over an agency he once sought to close

BY MELISSA GOLDIN
Updated 5:40 PM EDT, July 18, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) —

Former Missouri congressman Billy Long was ceremonially sworn in as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service on Friday in the Oval Office, taking over a beleaguered agency that he once sought to abolish and that has since been beset with steep staffing cuts and leadership turnover.

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Maraya1969

(23,333 posts)
11. I watched a video of him being questioned by congress. He is
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 04:30 PM
Aug 8

one of the dumbest people I have ever heard

Prairie Gates

(5,946 posts)
3. More chaos in the Trump regime...this is his own hand-picked commissioner who just started
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 03:30 PM
Aug 8

Two months ago! Eight fucking weeks.

And here's the usual: "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will serve as acting commissioner until a permanent replacement is in place, a senior administration official said."

I think we've all worked in places like this, where fickle admin changes their mind on a dime, and then there end up being people with 10 jobs in their so-called "portfolios."

What a mess.

FakeNoose

(38,326 posts)
14. Nobody is saying yet ...
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 05:36 PM
Aug 8

That's why these announcements are made late on a Friday afternoon in August.
There's nobody in Washington DC who can answer a question. The place is deserted.

Retrograde

(11,252 posts)
6. What's with this multiple jobs for cabinet members?
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 03:40 PM
Aug 8

Do they also get multiple salaries? Multiple benefits? Or does Donnie think he can pocket the savings, er, use them to build his ballroom?

My new motto: Get the Fox Out!

Marie Marie

(10,472 posts)
8. He is running out of people he can trust to blindly follow orders.
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 04:00 PM
Aug 8

That pool is getting smaller by the day.

Prairie Gates

(5,946 posts)
15. Correct...all fascist regimes have this characteristic: a few ultra-loyals with 8 jobs each
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 05:55 PM
Aug 8

The mystery is that Billy Long was as servile a Trumpy cretin as could be found in all the land, and would immediately jump to follow any directive from King Trump as soon as it dribbled out of his thin lips. So how does he get the shitcan? The fact that they're talking about an ambassador position for him is probably a clue: he was always meant to be replaced by Bessent, but just probably after six months or so, not two months, which is the head scratcher. Something's up with Bessent, seems to me.

muriel_volestrangler

(104,408 posts)
10. Various sites say Long will get "an ambassadorship", but I haven't seen where yet
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 04:10 PM
Aug 8

That could be a sop to keep him quiet, it could be somewhere unimportant but bad to live in to get him to turn it down. Haven't found any reason for this yet - did Long say something sensible?

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,287 posts)
16. More of a Cheshire Cat, nothing there but a grin.
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 05:59 PM
Aug 8

We have a declining economy, rising inflation, rising unemployment? See how good all that sounds if I say it while smiling.

mdbl

(7,205 posts)
17. Bessent has been much better at servicing Dump
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 09:09 PM
Aug 8

Too bad he's not performing services for his country.

MissouriDem47

(260 posts)
18. Long was never qualified
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 10:13 PM
Aug 8

Long was the Missouri 7th District Congressman for 10 years. He was never qualified to run the IRS. Yet, Republican's still confirmed his appointment anyway. He is another one of those great TACO hires.
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