Billy Long

Billy Long is now President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to lead the Internal Revenue Service. He left the US Congress in 2023. Long's selection to lead the I.R.S. is unusual. Since the 1990s, I.R.S. commissioners have had five-year terms, and the position has been treated as a relatively nonpartisan management job, which now oversees the more than 80,000 employees who collected nearly $5 trillion in taxes last fiscal year. The term for Daniel Werfel, the current leader of the I.R.S., who was nominated by President Biden, is not up until 2027. A Representative from Missouri; born in Springfield, Greene County, Mo., August 11, 1955; attended University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., 1973-1976; Missouri Auction School, 1979; business owner; radio commentator, 1999-2006; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Twelfth and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 2011-present).