The acting commissioner of the IRS was fired Friday after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly complained to President Donald Trump that DOGE cost-cutter in chief Elon Musk did not ask for approval to name Gary Shapley as the agency’s leader.

Trump vs. Musk is Back? It’s been several months of turmoil at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), with cuts from DOGE hitting that agency particularly hard, right on time for tax season. Now, there’s a major,

The president had picked Gary Shapley on Tuesday to run the agency after the previous IRS interim head, Melanie Krause, decided to resign. Shapley is a longtime IRS agent.