IRS Top Lawyer Pick Defends Comments on Agency Workers: BGOV Tax

Sept. 11, 2025, 10:05 AM UTC

Korb Answers Senate Panel Queries

President Donald Trump’s pick to be the IRS’s top lawyer told Senate Finance Committee staff that a former longtime agency employee should be “shot” for his resignation during the tax-filing season, the panel’s top Democrat said during Donald Korb’s confirmation hearing Wednesday.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said at the hearing that Korb, current counsel at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Trump’s pick for IRS chief counsel, told Finance Committee aides during a private meeting that former acting IRS Commissioner Doug O’Donnell should have been shot for his decision to resign earlier this year. In that ...

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