The interim commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was replaced days after he was appointed in the middle of reports between Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent.
It was reported that President Donald Trump replaced Gary Shapley, and Michael Faulkender, attached to Besent, will be the new interim commissioner of the IRS, five people who have “knowledge of change,” said the New York Times.
According to the departure, Bessert, according to the reports, “complained to Mr. Trump this week that Musk had made an end around him to get Mr. Shaley to settle as the interim chief of the IRS:
Besent had complained to Mr. Trump this week that Musk had made an end around him to install Shapley as an interim chief of the IRS, just although the tax collection agency informs Mr. Besént, said the people familiar with the situation. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discussion of private conversations.
Be Moran de Breitbart News reported in March that Besent, revealed that IRS complainants who had talked about the case of Hunter Biden had hired to serve as “senior advisors of the Treasury Department.” It was revealed that the two complainants who were hired to be main advisors of the Treasury Department are Gary Shaley and Joseph Ziegler.
In mail In X, Besent said it was “complete” that Faulkender “is the right man at the moment.” Besent added that Shaley “remains among Bessert’s” most important advisors “in the Treasury department.
“Trust must be returned to the IRS, and I am completely sure that @treasurydeSec Michael Faulkender is the right man at the moment,” Besent said in a statement. “Gary Shapley’s passion and consideration for approaching the ways to create lasting and lasting reforms in the IRS is essential for our work, and it is still one of my most important senior advisors in the @usstreasury while we work together in it.”
“After Gary and Joseph Ziegler complete their research in a year, I will make sure that both are in high -level government roles that will allow the results of their research to translate into significant policy changes,” Besent added.
Shapley was chosen to serve as an interim commissioner of the IRS after Melanie Krause, the former interim commissioner, resigned because the Treasury Department “agreed to” use IRS data “to help the deportation of immigration and customs.