Dem senator claims to have recordings that could sink Trump’s pick to run IRS
May 21, 2025 | Kevin Haggerty An effort to sink President Donald Trump’s pick to head the IRS found a Democrat senator closing with an allegation of recorded conversations.
Since the president’s return to the White House, the left has seemingly jumped at every opportunity to obstruct the America First agenda with lawsuits and delay tactics. Tuesday, as the Senate Finance Committee considered the nomination for IRS commissioner, ranking member Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden (D) saw fit to level an allegation in his closing remarks.
“Our staff investigators have on tape now, tax promoters saying you met with him at the inauguration and promised him a favorable private letter ruling,” he said to former Missouri Rep. Billy Long (R) when the nominee would have no opportunity to respond. “We also have on tape the White River CFO, who gave you the thousands of dollars, that he expects favorable treatment of these fake tribal credits.”
Throughout the hearing, lawmakers focused on Long’s work as a tax credit promoter and asserted that he was in the business of selling fake tax credits. To support the notion of a pay-for-play scheme, Wyden highlighted more than $165,000 that had been donated to Long’s dormant Senate campaign in the wake of his nomination, of which the legislator contended “$130,000 went directly into Congressman Long’s pockets when he paid back his personal loans.”
“My only involvement in this matter … was to connect interested friends of mine … just friends, if they had any interest,” Long said during questioning. As for $65,000 in income from the White River Energy firm that had been noted on his financial disclosure, the nominee remarked, “I worked through Capitol Edge Strategies. I didn’t work through — I never talked to anybody at White River. I don’t even know anybody at White River, and I don’t have any way to know who the tribe is, even.”
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