The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate voted Thursday to confirm scandal-plagued Billy Long to serve as head of the Internal Revenue Service, an agency that he sought to abolish during his tenure in Congress. Every Republican senator voted in favor of confirming President Donald Trump’s IRS commissioner pick in the face of revelations that he was closely involved in promoting a fraud-riddled…
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