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.
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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.
Charles, 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.
Much like with how he destroyed SSA the brain dead public will just keep saying waste, fraud, and abuse and no one will care.
I 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.
Interesting 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.
As usual, President Fatty McFat-A** is probably having trouble finding anyone else willing to work for him.
Frank 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.
Dude, you forgot the sarcasm tags.
So is Big Balls going to be doing double duty at the IRS too???????
I 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.
You don’t need a class. Try Google and you would have gotten the answer faster than it took you to type your comment/question.
Yes, 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.
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