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Billy Long: Trump's choice to lead IRS has a few tax issues of his own

President Trump's choice to lead the embattled Internal Revenue Service fought off accusations of being a 'crook' at a Senate confirmation hearing as he defended his business activities selling advice on how to claim 'fake' tax breaks. Billy Long, a Republican former congressman from Missouri, would become the sixth IRS commissioner this year if confirmed by the Senate. The tax-collecting agency is in a period of upheaval after Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) removed much of its staff. Long, 69, a former auctioneer who brought forward a bill to abolish the IRS while in Congress, is the latest in a line of loyal Trump-supporting candidates with apparently limited experience put forward for top federal jobs. The Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren asked him during