There are so many issues with Frank Bisignano's position as "CEO" of IRS. Let me list three that I know of:
- Bisignano is the 8th person to serve as head of the IRS in the eight and a half months that Trump has been back in the White House. The IRS can no longer carry out its core missions because it has fired a quarter of its employees. Why would anyone in their right mind want the job of CEO of such a disaster zone? And you thought that Social Security is a mess!
- The head of IRS is supposed to be the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, not the "CEO." It appears that the President is making up a title to get around submitting a new nomination for Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
- Why not submit a nomination? The nominee would face a confirmation hearing where he or she would have to answer questions Trump doesn't want answered, such as whether the nominee will continue illegally sharing data with ICE and whether the nominee will use the IRS to investigate the President's enemies. Also, the chaos at IRS would be a major topic.
How many hours can you dedicate to two full time 9-5 jobs? So does that mean I can also collect two salaries from two agencies at the same time? Oh, is this like running two businesses? The foolishness never ceases to amaze me.
ReplyDeleteCharles, please have a little faith in Frank. He’s done nothing short of a terrific job at SSA, undoing much of the damage of his predecessor. Have you seen those call wait times lately? He’s a man who literally shows up for the job each day. If his country needs him at IRS, we should cheer him rather than doubt him. I don’t know about you, but I’m with Frank.
ReplyDeleteFrank would gain .ore public trust if he were to post meaningful performance reports as Leland had done. The time AI takes to pick up a phone to get information for a 2-3 hour later call back is misleading. In addition, the disability workloads are kept afloat by reassiginng more federal employees to do what we pay states to do. Bring back meaningful amd accurate performance reports.
DeleteDude, you forgot the sarcasm tags.
DeleteWhoever is with Frank might want to clean their nose! The brown stains are showing! Bisignano hasn’t done a single effective thing since becoming COSS, his whole job before he was even confirmed was to disrupt operations by reducing the number of employees to an untenable level. We still have fraud because he’s continued to allow banks to enroll people without their permission and without any verification whatsoever, he’s made it more difficult on every elderly and disabled person which is 99% of the people we service by making them forcing them to come into the field office to change their direct deposit and even then the banks are still changing it to a fraudulent place because you’ve allowed bank employees that are not government employees to do our job for the suggested convenience. There is no original idea that the prior commissioner didn’t already have set in motion
DeleteThat's simply not true 8:41. Everyone at my office really enjoys Frank as Commissioner and appreciate the steps he's done to speed things up. Customers don't mind coming in and we enjoy chatting with them to make sure their files are setup correctly. Only negative things I ever hear about frank are anonymous commenters in this blog.
Delete@10/08 at 9:00pm,
DeleteIf you have time to chat with customers, you either aren't doing any sort of meaningful work or are just a shill who doesn't actually work for the agency.
In our office, staff can't spend time chatting with ANY customer. We don't have time. Try to do it, and you get a member of management chewing your arse for taking too much time.
Hey 9p, you don’t work in operations then. He has doubled the workload for almost every person that works on the frontline. This bs of trying to get call times to instant has backlogged every other workload because you have 3 of every 5 service reps now answering 800# calls, instead of assisting the already struggling field offices. The ivy tower folks in HQ who have not worked in operations at all or for so little time that they have no idea don’t realize the importance of making correct decisions that make operational sense. Don’t get me wrong I worked in both HQ and operations and honestly loved working in HQ, but it isn’t reality and that is the reason why when that entire building shuts down the agency doesn’t skip a beat, because most of the work is not worth the pay scale and I have worked enterprise wide. The decision are made in isolation without evidence basis that make sense
DeleteMuch like with how he destroyed SSA the brain dead public will just keep saying waste, fraud, and abuse and no one will care.
ReplyDeleteI don’t think Trump cares whether anyone knows what sort of shady things his IRS is doing. He seems totally uninterested in anything beyond hurling insults, carrying out revenge on his perceived political enemies, engaging in his favorite hobby of interior decorating, and raving about how manly and well-endowed Arnold Palmer and other men he admires are.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that Bisignano would want the IRS and SSA positions. Maybe DOGE feels there is some efficiency in merging components across the 2 agencies, such as Wage Reporting and storage of historical wage data. Crazier ideals have been tried by DOGE, one collective government database for all citizens information, big brother is watching.
ReplyDeleteAs usual, President Fatty McFat-A** is probably having trouble finding anyone else willing to work for him.
ReplyDeleteSo is Big Balls going to be doing double duty at the IRS too???????
ReplyDeleteI missed a step in civics class. Would the Commissioner of IRS require Senate confirmation if it is a bureau within the Dept. of Treasury? I'm not clear how far down the chain confirmations apply.
ReplyDeleteYou don’t need a class. Try Google and you would have gotten the answer faster than it took you to type your comment/question.
DeleteYes, it requires Senate confirmation. The Senate confirmed Trump's nominee Billy Long this summer; he served as IRS commissioner for less than two months before Trump removed him and nominated him as ambassador to Iceland.
DeleteRemember he is not being nominated for IRS Commissioner, CEO of IRS. No nomination needed.
Delete@8:12: Only because it’s not a real position. Did you read the post or just skip straight to the comments to spout off?
DeleteI don’t know. Maybe he sent his campaign contribution in when they were having a 2 for 1 sale?
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