“The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service is being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the latest leader of the agency had been installed without his knowledge and at the behest of billionaire Elon Musk,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Bessent believed that Mr. Musk had done an end run around him to get Gary Shapley installed as the interim head of the IRS, even though the tax collection agency reports to Mr. Bessent.”
“Mr. Bessent got Mr. Trump’s approval to unwind the decision.”
