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Trump Picks Replacement For Embattled IRS Chief John Koskinen
The Daily Caller ^
| 10-26-2017
| Chuck Ross
Posted on 10/26/2017 11:24:46 AM PDT by servo1969
President Trump made it official on Thursday that embattled IRS Commissioner John Koskinen will be out of a job next month.
Trump tapped David Kautter, the Treasury Department’s assistant secretary for tax policy, to serve as interim IRS commissioner, beginning Nov. 13.
Koskinen’s term ends on Nov. 12. He was eligible for reappointment, but Koskinen is fiercely opposed by congressional Republicans. Members of the House Freedom Caucus attempted but failed to impeach Koskinen last year, largely over his handling of the scandal involving former IRS official Lois Lerner.
Prior to Koskinen’s tenure, Lerner was accused targeting conservative groups who applied for non-profit status. Koskinen was accused of stonewalling congressional investigators looking into Lerner’s activities as well as of covering up for the Obama administration.
Trump had faced pressure from many Republicans to fire Koskinen, who was appointed to head the IRS by President Obama in 2013.
Kautter, Koskinen’s intended replacement, was appointed to his role at Treasury in August. He worked as a tax attorney at the firm Ernst & Young for more than three decades.
Kautter will still perform his Treasury Department duties while overseeing the IRS, according to Treasury Sec. Steven Mnuchin.
“David will provide important leadership while we wait to confirm a permanent commissioner,” Mnuchin said in a statement, according to Bloomberg.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: davidkautter; irs; kautter; koskinen; lerner; obama; third100days; trump; trumpcabinet; trumpirs
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To: servo1969
Took too long. The criminal should have been in prison from day 1.
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posted on
10/26/2017 12:18:23 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(It's harder and harder to have a sense of humor in this insane world.)
To: servo1969
Good riddance to bad rubbish, but unfortunately, Sessions has given a pass to the criminals at the IRS and instead saddled the taxpayers with footing the bill for the settlement with the Tea Party and other conservative groups. This ensures that something like this will happen again in the future. Nice work, Jeff.
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posted on
10/26/2017 12:28:21 PM PDT
by
Major Matt Mason
(The U.S. Senate - where American freedom goes to die.)
To: apocalypto
Ditto!
They better not let this scumbag leave the country.
The party is just starting...
To: servo1969
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posted on
10/26/2017 12:45:08 PM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
To: COBOL2Java
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posted on
10/26/2017 2:13:24 PM PDT
by
Fido969
(In!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
<>Members of the House Freedom Caucus attempted but failed to impeach Koskinen last year.<>
The impeachment clause of the Constitution is dead.
Perhaps history will write that it died when scotus overturned Natural Law, the Seventh Commandment, and Western History when it constitutionalized fag marriage.
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posted on
10/26/2017 2:30:11 PM PDT
by
Jacquerie
(ArticleVBlog.com)
To: servo1969
According to
Wikipedia, "The Commissioner is appointed by the President, with the consent of the Senate, for a five-year term."
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posted on
10/26/2017 4:44:28 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(We're making ourselves a society too stupid to survive. ~ Mark Steyn)
To: servo1969
Lock that arrogant, lying POS up!
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posted on
10/26/2017 5:02:09 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
(Support Free Republic and Keep FReedom ALIVE!)
To: servo1969
To: beergarden
This has been on The Liberty Daily, Drudge, FNC. The President probably reads them first.
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posted on
10/26/2017 5:13:18 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: servo1969
Trump is insulting all of us who voted for him by keeping ANY barky appointee.
Lerner should go to jail.
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posted on
10/26/2017 5:43:17 PM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
To: servo1969
Another day that weasel is in office is another off what should be a life sentence under a prison.
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posted on
10/26/2017 6:08:18 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
("Mr President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!")
To: oldtech
That ####
Hate him. Good.
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posted on
10/26/2017 6:10:47 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
To: COBOL2Java
Yeesh - Gollum's younger brother.
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posted on
10/26/2017 6:26:11 PM PDT
by
lapsus calami
(What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
To: Popman
Was wondering if this has anything to do with not enforcing the the penalties from Obozo care?
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posted on
10/26/2017 6:32:04 PM PDT
by
thingumbob
(Antifa. Carrying on Hitler's legacy one beating at a time.)
To: oldtech
He should be in JAIL along with Lerner..we all know that Obama is the one that ordered everything
To: servo1969
Well, at least we threw SOMEONE under the bus. Now, that bus needs to BACKTHEF*CKUP and run over Lois Lerner!
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posted on
10/26/2017 7:54:49 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
To: servo1969
Good, but too little too late. He was allowed to serve his full term. Considering the banana republic tyranny against citizens who were exercising the rights, this should have been a criminal case from back in January. It is a shame the these criminal get off scott free when they robbed the rights of free people and enforced Robert Mugabe style tactics against their political opponents.
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posted on
10/26/2017 7:57:29 PM PDT
by
Moorings
To: Regulator
EVERY Ophonybama appointee should have been fired at 0001 on Jan 20, 2017!
Any of them still not on the street or in prison should be fired and then indicted, convicted and sent to a Supermax!
IOW, if a person was part of the Ophonybama administration, they were an active participant in the biggest crime event in human history!
Supermax may be too good for them!
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posted on
10/26/2017 8:53:13 PM PDT
by
Taxman
(Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
To: servo1969
President Trump made it official on Thursday that embattled IRS Commissioner John Koskinen will be out of a job next month. Great! But WHY did it take so long???
Koskinen and Lerner should be in prison.
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posted on
10/26/2017 9:39:48 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
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