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TODAY'S NUGGETS
😬 A Longshot nomination? Trump’s pick to lead the Internal Revenue Service just faced a tough confirmation grilling — including about The Lever’s reporting on his shady industry donors and plans to weaponize the IRS against his nonprofit enemies. Former Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) has the backing of Senate Republicans, even after he helped businesses enroll in a pandemic-era tax credit that later became a “magnet for fraud.” The scheme cost the federal government potentially billions of dollars and involved selling tax credits the Treasury Department says “don’t exist.”
