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In a Year of Working Dangerously, Fear of Trump Marks Public Service Awards

The Trump administration’s large cuts to the federal work force turned an annual celebration of federal workers into a reminder of loss.

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David Lebryk, a former top Treasury Department official, said on Tuesday that “most of my career was spent trying to be unnoticed.”

Senate Confirms Billy Long to Lead I.R.S., Ignoring Troubled Tax Credit History

The former Republican congressman and auctioneer also had a brief career selling tax credits, including one that the I.R.S. said did not exist and another it said was rife with fraud.

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Billy Long, a former Republican congressman from Missouri and President Trump’s nominee to head the Internal Revenue Service, during a hearing on his nomination last month.
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