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• Billy Long Confirmed to Lead IRS as Staffing Cuts Complicate Modernization Plans - June 18, 2025

• FedManager

  The IRS has a new permanent commissioner, as the Senate confirmed former Missouri Republican Congressman Billy Long to the position.
  
  Long was confirmed on a 53-44 vote, overcoming Democrats’ opposition. While in Congress, Long sponsored a bill to get rid of the IRS. He also worked for a firm that pitched a pandemic-era tax break that was riddled with fraud.

  Long takes over an agency in transition and counting interim heads, is the sixth leader of the IRS this year.

  Staffing Plans Impact Modernization Goals

  One of the major challenges will be figuring out the staffing situation at the agency and how that impacts the agency’s plans to modernize. About 20 percent of the IRS workforce left since President Trump took office, many of them on deferred resignations or early retirements. 

  And if layoffs resume and all those who signed up for the delayed resignation offer are approved, the IRS workforce could fall below 60,000 employees, a 40 percent reduction from the last days of the Biden Administration. 

  To read the full article, click here.

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