Donald Trump has made clear that his company will be pursuing business opportunities in other countries while he is president and making decisions about the relationship between the U.S. and those countries.
In his first term, Donald Trump had a knack for choosing officials to lead agencies that the officials didn’t think should exist. Rick Perry, for example, called for the elimination of the Department of Energy, but that didn’t stop Trump from nominating Perry to lead the Department of Energy. Mick Mulvaney called for the elimination of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau before Trump chose him to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The list, unfortunately, doesn’t stop there.
The New Republic’s Tim Noah described it as a timely example of “choosing a fox to guard the chicken coop.” Before we dig in on this, it’s important to pause and note that the Republican president-elect shouldn’t be choosing anyone to lead the IRS. The incumbent commissioner, Danny Werfel, was appointed in 2022 to a five-year term, and by all accounts, he wants to keep his position — traditionally, a “relatively nonpartisan management job“ — until his term ends.
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