According to USAToday, President Obama will name a new acting IRS commissioner by the end of this week:
Obama said on Wednesday that he's accepted the resignation of acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven Miller in the aftermath of revelations that agency officials were putting extra scrutiny on Tea Party groups' applications for tax-exempt status.
The official did not name who the replacement will be, and spoke on the condition of anonymity because the president has yet to make the personnel announcement.
In brief comments Wednesday evening after discussing the Internal Revenue Service controversy with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Deputy Secretary Neal Wolin, Obama vowed to take decisive action to ensure that the situation would not be repeated.
"It's inexcusable and Americans are right to be angry about it and I am angry about it," Obama said. "I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but particularly the IRS given the power that it has and the reach that it has in all of our lives."
President Obama went on to say that installing new leadership at the IRS was the first step to restoring confidence in the IRS.
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