Yesterday, President Trump axed IRS Commissioner Billy Long after just two months on the job.
Billy Long was appointed to the role of U.S. Ambassador to Iceland — a demotion if I ever saw one.
And now, we may know why…
New reports claim that Billy Long was fired as IRS chief for going against the Trump administration on a very big matter.
Just hours before he was fired, Billy Long refused to hand over taxpayer information on suspected illegal aliens.
Take a look:
🚨 NEW: Trump FIRED IRS Commissioner Billy Long after the agency said it COULD NOT (OR WOULD NOT) release information on taxpayers suspected of being ILLEGAL ALIENS.
Treasury Secretary Bessent will serve as acting commissioner.
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JUST IN 🅱️
IRS Commissioner Billy Long was fired shortly after REFUSING to give DHS data on suspected undocumented immigrants..
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As you may recall, the Treasury Department struck a deal with the DHS to provide them with tax data on illegal aliens.
However, when the DHS gave the IRS a list of tens of thousands of names of suspect illegal alien to check out, Billy Long was only able to verify less than 3%.
And, when the White House requested more information on those suspect illegal alien taxpayers the IRS did verify, Billy Long reportedly refused.
Hours later, he was fired from the role and replaced with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
The Washington Post reported:
The Internal Revenue Service clashed with the White House over using tax data to help locate suspected undocumented immigrants hours before Trump administration officials forced IRS Commissioner Billy Long from his post Friday, according to two people familiar with the situation.
The Department of Homeland Security sent the IRS a list Thursday of 40,000 names of people DHS officials thought were in the country illegally and asked the IRS to use confidential taxpayer data to verify their addresses, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
The Treasury Department, the parent agency of the IRS, and DHS agreed to an arrangement in April to facilitate suchdata sharing — over the objections of the tax service’s privacy lawyers.
DHS officials have suggested they would eventually ask the IRS for help locating 7 million people. There are about 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, according to federal estimates.
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.
White House officials requested additional information on the taxpayers the IRS identified, the people said — specifically, if any of them had claimed the earned income tax credit, which can reduce the tax bill for some low-income filers. The IRS declined to provide that information, citing taxpayer privacy rights.
Long had previously told agency executives that his agency would not furnish confidential taxpayer information outside of the confines of the IRS’s agreement with DHS, the people said.
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It certainly seems like Billy Long was not on board with the Trump administration’s goals.
If all these claims are true, then President Trump absolutely made the right call firing him and replacing him with Scott Bessent — a financial mastermind who has proven his loyalty.
However, a White House spokesperson has shot down the notion that everyone at the IRS was not “aligned on the mission” of using taxpayer information to identify illegal aliens.
From The Guardian:
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson rejected the notion that the IRS was not in harmony with administration priorities.
“Any absurd assertion other than everyone being aligned on the mission is simply false and totally fake news,” Johnson told the Post. “The Trump administration is working in lockstep to eliminate information silos and to prevent illegal aliens from taking advantage of benefits meant for hardworking American taxpayers,” she added.
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