Most politicians don’t have donors knocking down their doors to help them pay off debts from failed campaigns, yet that’s exactly what happened when former Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) was nominated by President Trump to lead the IRS.

Even more concerningly, Long’s outstanding debts were just loans he had made to his own failed 2022 Senate campaign. In other words, donors — some of whom work for companies that have been accused of peddling fraudulent tax credits — were literally lining his pockets to the tune of $130,000. They were enabling Long to pay himself back the money he had sunk into his own campaign.

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