Trump IRS pick aggressively pushed tax credit that became 'magnet for fraud': NYT

Revelations that President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Internal Revenue Service aggressively promoted an often misused pandemic-era tax credit, which is raising new questions about his motives for the position.

Senate Democrats preparing to grill former U.S. Rep. Billy Long of Missouri – who Trump named as his nominee to serve as the commissioner of the IRS – have already requested information from Lifetime Advisors, the lawsuit-plagued consulting firm he hopped on board with after leaving Congress in 2023...