U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday confirmed that the Trump administration is replacing the acting director of the IRS, replacing Gary Shapley with Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender.
“Trust must be brought back to the IRS, and I am fully confident that … Faulkender is the right man for the moment,” Bessent wrote in a post on X. “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.”
After Shapley and another official, Joseph Ziegler, finish an ongoing investigation, the administration “will ensure they are both in senior government roles that will enable the results of their investigation to translate into meaningful policy changes,” Bessent added....
