{"id":2406247,"date":"2025-02-25T05:18:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T10:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-pick-to-lead-the-irs-hangs-in-limbo-over-delayed-paperwork\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T05:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T10:20:53","slug":"trumps-pick-to-lead-the-irs-hangs-in-limbo-over-delayed-paperwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-pick-to-lead-the-irs-hangs-in-limbo-over-delayed-paperwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s pick to lead the IRS hangs in limbo over delayed paperwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-pick-to-lead-the-irs-hangs-in-limbo-over-delayed-paperwork%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2406247&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The nomination of Billy Long, a former Republican congressman from Missouri, to lead\u200d the IRS under President Donald Trump is stalled \u200cdue to incomplete background paperwork. Senate\u200c Finance \u200bCommittee\u200c Chairman Mike Crapo expressed uncertainty about when the necessary\u200b paperwork\u200b would be\u2062 finalized, which is typical for nominees in new administrations.\u2064 The situation is complicated by the ongoing tax-filing season as the IRS faces staff \u2064reductions following the firing of over 6,000 employees. Despite the bureaucratic delays,White House officials did\u2063 not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-snubs-gop-leaders-on-new-iran-diplomacy\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Snubs GOP ...ers on New Iran Diplomacy\">provide specific details<\/a> about the nomination process. \u200cLong\u200b has yet to have a confirmation\u2062 hearing and is expected to encounter \u200dopposition from Democrats due to\u200c his close alignment with Trump and his past proposals to abolish \u2063the IRS. \u2064As the committee focuses on various nominees, the timeframe for advancing long&#8217;s nomination remains unclear.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump&rsquo;s pick to lead the IRS hangs in limbo over delayed paperwork<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1994522\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s nominee to be the next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/internal-revenue-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Internal Revenue Service\">IRS<\/a> commissioner, former Missouri GOP Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3250572\/trump-picks-billy-long-irs-commissioner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Billy Long\">Billy Long<\/a>, faces continued delay over <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">apparent unfinished background paperwork<\/a> that&rsquo;s creating mixed messages between the White House and Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-ID) told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> he&rsquo;s unsure when the paperwork with various federal agencies would conclude so his panel could advance Long but indicated it was part of the bureaucratic delay that nominees and committees regularly face under new administrations.<\/p>\n<p>The White House suggested Crapo&rsquo;s committee was facing a backlog of nominees, including Long. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the inability to proceed comes amid tax-filing season for most Americans and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3325366\/irs-employees-firings-middle-tax-season\/\">firing of more than 6,000<\/a> probationary IRS workers as part of the Trump administration&rsquo;s overhaul of the federal workforce pushed by billionaire ally Elon Musk and DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The IRS can function very well and will deal with the tax season,&rdquo; Crapo said. &ldquo;I think it would be better if we got him done sooner than later.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Presidential nominees go through a vigorous vetting process that includes, among other things, a background check, ethics review for potential conflicts of interest, and an agreement with the Office of Government Ethics. The White House and Senate prioritized Trump&rsquo;s Cabinet confirmations in the first month of his second term and have only recently set their sights on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-could-thrust-low-key-ambassador-picks-in-the-spotlight-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"... could thrust low-key ambassador picks in the spotlight - Washington Examiner\">lower-level nominees<\/a> now that his Cabinet is nearly filled.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate confirmed Scott Bessent last month to lead the Department of Treasury, which oversees the IRS.<\/p>\n<p>Crapo believed Long&rsquo;s paperwork was not yet to the ethics office, suggesting they would not be able to proceed with Long in the immediate future. A search of the office&rsquo;s database showed no publicly available paperwork for Long.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s just very simple: the paperwork is not finished,&rdquo; Crapo added. &ldquo;That is not because of some specific reason that I&rsquo;m aware of.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>White House officials declined to answer questions regarding Long&rsquo;s representative team and told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em>&nbsp;to route any inquiries about his nomination directly through the press office.<\/p>\n<p>A White House official said Crapo&rsquo;s Finance Committee &ldquo;is in the process of considering a few nominees.&rdquo; The committee has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finance.senate.gov\/nominations\">several other Trump nominees<\/a> under its jurisdiction who are awaiting approval but do not have any scheduled hearings or meetings on its calendar for the next few weeks. The nominee it considered most recently, Jamieson Greer to be U.S. trade representative, was advanced by the Senate during a procedural floor vote Monday evening.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump takes with then-Rep. Billy Long after giving his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, at the Capitol in Washington. (Doug Mills\/The New York Times via AP, Pool)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said in a statement that &ldquo;just like all of President Trump&rsquo;s highly-qualified nominees, Billy Long will be swiftly considered before the Senate and confirmed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Long could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Former IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel, appointed by former President Joe Biden, was confirmed in 2023 to a term that lasts until November 2027. He resigned on Trump&rsquo;s first day back in office.<\/p>\n<p>Long, a congressman from 2011-2023 and a former auctioneer, has not yet had a confirmation hearing before the Finance Committee but is likely to face widespread opposition from Democrats. He&rsquo;s closely aligned with Trump and has supported bills that would abolish the IRS and replace the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/get-woke-go-broke-meghan-and-harrys-charity-raised-under-50000-in-2020\/\" title=\"Get Woke, Go Broke: Meghan and Harry\u2019s Charity Raised Under ,000 in 2020\">tax-collecting agency<\/a> with a national sales tax. Trump has recently suggested the IRS should be abolished and replaced with tariff revenues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/3154138\/trump-no-tax-overtime-proposal-what-to-know\/\"><strong>TRUMP&rsquo;S &lsquo;NO TAXES ON OVERTIME&rsquo; PROPOSAL: WHAT TO KNOW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), the Finance Committee&rsquo;s ranking member, was also unaware of specifics regarding Long&rsquo;s paperwork snafu.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The question is, how did the bureaucracy not take other [nominees] to the sidelines?&rdquo; Wyden said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Christian Datoc contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1994522\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1994522\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s IRS nominee, Billy Long, faces delays due to incomplete paperwork<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3108,"featured_media":2406248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/irs-commissioner-nominee-billy-long.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[9419,8362,9134,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2406247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-delays","tag-irs","tag-nomination","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/irs-commissioner-nominee-billy-long.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2406247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406251,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406247\/revisions\/2406251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2406248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}