Neal Statement on Bisignano Being Named CEO of the IRS

SPRINGFIELD, MA— Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano would be named CEO of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS):

“President Trump is inventing positions out of thin air to bypass Congress and hand more power to his loyalists. Putting Commissioner Bisignano in charge of the IRS while he simultaneously oversees a chaotic and destructive operation at Social Security makes it clear that in Trump’s Washington, loyalty is rewarded, and competence is irrelevant.  

“Both of these agencies have been under Republican-attack for years, and over the last nine months, the Trump Administration has taken it even further, mishandling the people’s data and dodging accountability. Now, Americans are supposed to trust the gamut of their most sensitive data will be secure under the watch of a single person? This decision is a greenlight for more of the same: personal loyalty and destruction as priority number one, consequences be damned. 

“Democrats will continue fighting for answers and to stop this campaign of chaos that puts them in harm’s way more every day.” 

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