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.
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 deliver on the Secretary’s priorities of service, collections and privacy for generations to come,” Faulkender’s email read, according to the Associated Press.
As the news outlet observed, Long is not the first Trump appointee to lead an agency as its potential last head.
Secretary of the Department of Education Linda McMahon had made her intentions clear to put herself out of her own job.
On March 20, Trump issued an order directing her “to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to the States, while continuing to ensure the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.”
In that order, Trump noted the Department of Education was not getting the job done in preparing youth for the future.
“13-year-olds’ mathematics scores are the lowest they have been in decades. 13-year-olds’ reading scores are the lowest since testing began over 30 years ago. Low-performing students are falling further behind. In 2023, 13 Baltimore, Maryland, high schools had zero students who tested proficient in mathematics,” the order added.
What about the IRS?
In 2022, former President Joe Biden expanded the agency with a staggering 87,000 new agents, which was estimated to bring in over $200 billion in new revenues, according to the Heritage Foundation.
Most Americans would ask on that point: Why?
It all comes back to how government actually uses our tax dollars.
When the IRS is taking billions through enforcement under Biden, and Americans see the border wide open with the illegals pouring in enjoying benefits courtesy of those tax dollars, there’s a problem.
Whatever Long and Trump have planned for the IRS cannot be worse than the last four years.
Maybe it would be best if Long just finished the job he set out to do in Congress.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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