Scott Bessent Picked For Powerful New Role

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JUST IN: Scott Bessent Picked For Powerful New Role

Published 16 hours ago

on August 8, 2025

By Mark Steffen

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was appointed by President Donald Trump on Friday to serve as the acting IRS commissioner, a powerful role that empowers Bessent like no other treasurer before him.

Bessent, who serves as a de facto whisperer to Wall Street on behalf of the administration, will oversee both the government’s disbursements as well as its collection of revenue, the first time in history that one person has held both roles simultaneously.

The move kicks former IRS Commissioner Billy Long out of office just two months after he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate, a move that was made directly by Trump, according to four people familiar with the decision.

However, Long remains in Trump’s good graces and will be nominated for an ambassadorship, the sources said. Bessent’s temporary selection makes him the sixth individual to head the beleaguered agency this year.

Long, who represented Missouri’s 7th congressional district from 2011 to 2023, lost the 2022 Republican primary for U.S. Senate, leaving him sidelined from office for the first time in years. He was an early and enthusiastic supporter of President Trump’s 2024 campaign.

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Report: IRS Commissioner Billy Long Ousted After Clash Over Using Illegal Aliens’ Data

Elizabeth Weibel 9 Aug 2025

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Billy Long was removed from his position hours after the IRS and the White House clashed over the usage of taxpayer information to find thousands of illegal aliens in the United States, according to a recent report

“Two people familiar with the situation” told the Washington Post that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had sent the IRS a list of roughly 40,000 people that “DHS officials thought were” in the U.S. illegally. The IRS was asked to “use confidential taxpayer data to verify their addresses.”

Per the outlet, on Friday, the IRS revealed that “it was able to verify fewer than 3 percent of the names immigration enforcement officials submitted.”

    On Friday, though, the IRS responded that it was able to verify fewer than 3 percent of the names immigration enforcement officials submitted, the people said.

    The names the agency could match were mainly the individuals for whom DHS provided an individual taxpayer identification number. An ITIN is an IRS-specific ID that immigrants often use in place of a Social Security number on a tax filing. Undocumented immigrants pay tens of billions of dollars in taxes each year, which the ITINs help facilitate.

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