Trump is replacing the acting IRS commissioner, part of a dispute between Treasury and Elon Musk

Gary Shapley, the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, is being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent approached President Donald Trump to say that Shapley was placed into the role without his knowledge and at Elon Musk’s direction, according to a source familiar with the discussions.
Gary Shapley, the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, is being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent approached President Donald Trump to say that Shapley was placed into the role without his knowledge and at Elon Musk’s direction, according to a source familiar with the discussions.
Bessent received Trump’s approval to roll back the decision, the source said.
A Treasury spokesperson confirmed that Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender had been selected to become the next acting head of the IRS.
The Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, DC., on March 22, 2013.Susan Walsh / AP file“Trust must be brought back to the IRS, and I am fully confident that Deputy Secretary Michael Faulkender is the right man for the moment," Bessent said in a statement, adding that Shapley would remain a top adviser to him on IRS reform.
"Gary Shapley’s passion and thoughtfulness for approaching ways by which to create durable and lasting reforms at the IRS is essential to our work, and he remains among my most important senior advisors at the U.S. Treasury as we work together to rethink and reform the IRS," Bessent said.
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