IRS Acting Director Replaced by Deputy Treasury Secretary Days After Appointment

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he will ensure the former acting director, Gary Shipley, will continue to work in a senior government role.

A file photo of the IRS building in Washington. J. David Ake/AP Photo

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.”