Who’s out, who’s in … front of the bus?
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Out: Acting head of IRS Gary Shapley, installed by President Musk three days ago.
Donald Trump is replacing the acting commissioner of the US Internal Revenue Service after treasury secretary Scott Bessent reportedly complained to the president that the agency head had been appointed without his knowledge and under the instruction of Doge leader Elon Musk.
According to a report from the New York Times published on Friday, Bessent believed that the Doge head “had done an end-run around him” to get Gary Shapley installed as the interim head of the IRS, despite the fact that the IRS reports to Bessent. The report cited five anonymous sources with knowledge of the situation.
Good thing this is a slow time at the IRS.
Soon to be out? Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Loomer doesn’t like Bessent because he said he has a Black friend Loomer doesn’t like.
On social media, the conflict between Bessent and Musk was visible as Musk elevated a post from far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer in which she accuses Bessent of collaborating with a “pro-impeachment and pro-censorship Trump hater”, referring to the businessman John Hope Bryant. Musk agreed with Loomer, calling the collaboration “troubling”, on X, the platform he owns.
Here is how Loomer described Bryant:
I thought that we were getting rid of DEI, and then we get to have these uppity Blacks just walk into the Trump administration and start making demands and acting like they run the Treasury department, and that they should have, like, an active role in the Trump administration while they sit around and try to undermine every initiative that Donald Trump has worked on.
But don’t call these right wing assholes racist. (As a warning: If you can’t comment on Loomer without resorting to misogyny, don’t comment. Thanks.)
In front of the bus – Two of Secretary of Drinks Cart Pete Hic! Hegseth’s aides.
Two aides to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were placed on administrative leave on April 15 as part of an investigation into unauthorized leaks of information, according to two defense officials.
The Pentagon did not disclose specifics of the alleged offense by Dan Caldwell or Darin Selnick because the matter is under investigation, according to the officials who were not authorized to speak publicly.
The news about Caldwell was first reported by Reuters. Politico first reported on Selnick.
But it isn’t because of the Signal chat fiasco. That was no big deal. Really.
The suspensions come after Hegseth disclosed operational details of the Pentagon’s air strikes on Houthi militants March 15. Hegseth discussed the attack’s timing with senior Trump administration officials on the encrypted commercial app Signal. That chat had mistakenly included the editor of The Atlantic magazine.
The well oiled machine is a crybertruck.
