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Increase the number of presidential appointments at the IRS

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 22, p. 699. Written by William L. Walton, Stephen Moore, David R. Burton.

Increase the number of presidential appointments at the IRS

The document says “is necessary”Who acts: President, CongressHow: legislationp. 699 in the PDF
What the document says

“there is a need to increase the number of Presidential appointments subject to Senate confirmation, and not subject to Senate confirmation, at the IRS”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 699

The chapter names the Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement, the Deputy Commissioner for Operations Support, the National Taxpayer Advocate and the Commissioner of the Wage and Investment division among the posts it would change, and asks for an oversight board of private sector IT experts with authority to conduct contemporaneous oversight.

What the document actually says

“there is a need to increase the number of Presidential appointments subject to Senate confirmation, and not subject to Senate confirmation, at the IRS”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 699
That sentence, in plain words

The tax office needs more posts filled by the president.

What this is about

Most tax office bosses are career staff. The book wants more of them picked by the president. It says that would make the agency answer for its work.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed creates presidential appointments at the Internal Revenue Service or an oversight board of private sector information technology experts. The nearest candidates are government wide civil service actions: EO 14356 requires a strategic hiring committee to approve filling any vacant position, and rule-2025-11576 lengthens probationary periods. Both change how career staff are hired and kept, which is not the same as converting a career post into a presidential appointment. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 699.
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    “Increase the number of presidential appointments at the IRS,” Project 2025, chapter 22, p. 699. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch22-more-irs-appointees/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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