Ron DeSantis: IRS Boss Needs to Go

U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., now running for the U.S. Senate, is calling for the removal of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen and is open to impeaching him.

 DeSantis and U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, penned a piece that ran in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal and noted that Koskinen has breached the public trust.

“If the president doesn’t remove Mr. Koskinen from his post, then Congress should remove him through impeachment,” the congressmen wrote. “The impeachment power is a political check that, as Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 65 in 1788, protects the public against ‘the abuse or violation of some public trust.’
 
“Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story echoed Hamilton in 1833 when he distinguished impeachable offenses from criminal offenses, noting that they ‘are aptly termed political offenses, growing out of personal misconduct or gross neglect, or usurpation, or habitual disregard for the public interests . . . They must be examined upon very broad and comprehensive principles of public policy and duty,’” they added.  “John Koskinen has violated the public trust, breached his fiduciary obligations and demonstrated his unfitness to serve. Mr. President, it’s time for Commissioner Koskinen to go. If you don’t act, we will.”