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Laura Loomer thinks she works for the Trump administration as special assistant for personnel. Actually, she doesn't work for the administration at all, but she goes around looking for people she doesn't like and then tells Trump to fire them or not hire them in the first place. He generally complies. Her most recent target is Donald Korb, the nominee for chief counsel to the IRS. On Friday, Trump yanked the nomination, even though Korb had already cleared the Senate Finance Committee. Passage by the full Senate was thus very likely. Loomer triumphantly reposted his announcement along with the hashtag #LOOMERED.
Korb was expected to play a major role in implementing all the tax provisions of the BBB, a very complex law. His job would have been to figure out how IRS should actually carry out the many provisions of the new law. He was IRS' chief counsel during the George W. Bush administration, so he knows the ropes and could have hit the ground running.
Having an experienced hand on board would have helped IRS greatly. The agency has had seven different (acting) commissioners this year alone. The current one is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who apparently thinks running Treasury is a part-time job. (V)