Overview
- Trump announced the withdrawal Friday on Truth Social and offered no explanation for the decision.
- Donald Korb was nominated in April for the dual post of IRS chief counsel and assistant general counsel at the Treasury, with the nomination sent to the Senate Finance Committee.
- At a September Finance Committee hearing, senators pressed Korb over reports that he said a career IRS official who resigned “should have been shot,” a remark attributed in questioning to Sen. Ron Wyden.
- Korb previously served as IRS chief counsel from 2004 to 2008 and has decades of tax-law experience, including work at Sullivan & Cromwell.
- The Treasury Department and the IRS must now identify a new candidate to lead the agencies’ top legal office, restarting the confirmation process.