{"id":2943,"date":"2025-06-17T02:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T01:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/2025\/06\/senate-gop-confirms-billy-long-an-anti-irs-extremist-as-agencys-chief\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T02:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T01:27:16","slug":"senate-gop-confirms-billy-long-an-anti-irs-extremist-as-agencys-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=2943","title":{"rendered":"Senate GOP Confirms Billy Long, an Anti-IRS Extremist, as Agency\u2019s Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Today, the Senate\u2019s GOP majority confirmed former Congressman Billy Long as IRS Chief, despite his past support for abolishing the agency and replacing the federal income tax with a regressive national sales tax. Just yesterday, Senator Wyden sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finance.senate.gov\/ranking-members-news\/wyden-blasts-lax-fbi-background-check-of-irs-nominee-billy-long-sounds-alarm-over-court-documents-implicating-long-in-major-bribery-conspiracy\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">letter <\/a>to the White House raising concerns about inadequate vetting of Long\u2019s background\u2014particularly multiple high-profile corruption allegations, including Long\u2019s involvement in a major bribery controversy with a large healthcare company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump and Senate Republicans finally delivered a long-awaited return on investment to the billionaire backers that fund their party: an IRS Chief with extreme views on tax policy and no interest in reining in wealthy tax cheats or helping working families. It\u2019s alarming that a nominee with so many clear-cut, publicly visible instances of potential fraud or corruption was able to get the votes of Senate Republicans to become the lead administrator of our country\u2019s tax system,\u201d said David Kass, ATF\u2019s Executive Director. \u201cLong\u2014who once co-sponsored legislation to abolish the agency he now leads\u2014is sending a clear signal to wealthy tax cheats everywhere that Trump\u2019s IRS will serve the wealthy and well-connected at the expense of working and middle-class families. With Long at the helm, it becomes even more critical to stop Trump\u2019s disastrous tax bill that cuts critical programs Americans depend on, like Medicaid and SNAP, to fund massive tax giveaways for billionaires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Billy Long\u2019s tax positions, please see our recent <a href=\"https:\/\/americansfortaxfairness.org\/backer-abolishing-irs-proposed-lead-agency\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">report <\/a>analyzing his positions on tax issues in Congress. The report examines his support for eliminating estate and federal income taxes in favor of a national sales tax\u2014a policy that would raise consumer prices while giving substantial tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Senate\u2019s GOP majority confirmed former Congressman Billy Long as IRS Chief, despite his past support for abolishing the agency and replacing the federal income tax with a regressive national sales tax. Just yesterday, Senator Wyden sent a letter to the White House raising concerns about inadequate vetting of Long\u2019s background\u2014particularly multiple high-profile corruption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}