In the face of requests for an investigation into whether senior former FBI officers had been improperly targeted for extra thorough audits, the White House on Thursday declined to say whether President Biden has faith in IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig.
“The IRS commissioner’s term expires in November, as you are aware, but I don’t have any new information on that.
I can only say that we would send you to the IRS for that particular matter and that I am unable to say anything else.
In response to a question regarding Biden’s faith in Rettig, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated that Rettig will be elected in November.
Both Democratic and Republican legislators have demanded a probe of the IRS audits that were conducted under Rettig, a former president Trump appointee who considered the officials as political adversaries.
According to the New York Times, former FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe were the targets of a series of audits that weren’t supposed to be random but instead targeted specific individuals.
When questioned once more about Biden’s belief in Rettig to serve out the remainder of his tenure, Jean-Pierre once more emphasized that Rettig’s term expires in November.
And once more, she added, “I’m going to say that he is up in November, he is a commissioner of the IRS, part of the administration, so I’m just going to leave it at that.”
When questioned if saying the president’s term expires in November implied that he wouldn’t be renominated, Jean-Pierre responded that she wouldn’t go ahead of the president.
According to the New York Times, former FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe were the targets of a series of audits that were not meant to be random but rather targeted specific individuals.
When asked again about Biden’s confidence in Rettig to serve out the remainder of his term, Jean-Pierre emphasised that Rettig’s term expires in November.
In response to a question about Biden’s confidence in Rettig, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Rettig will be elected in November.
Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have called for an investigation into the IRS audits conducted by Rettig, a former Trump appointee who viewed the officials as political adversaries.
In response to requests for an investigation into whether senior former FBI officers were improperly targeted for extra thorough audits, the White House declined to say whether President Biden has faith in IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig on Thursday.
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She replied, “I’m not going to get ahead of the president’s choice; it is his to decide.
She noted that she wouldn’t speak on the IRS’s enforcement efforts.
The New York Times said that Comey, who was fired by Trump, had a one-in-30,000 chance of being subjected to this particular type of audit at the IRS as part of the National Research Program.
In the same program, McCabe’s audit had a 1-in-20,000 probability of happening, yet it did so just two years later.
