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.

The acting commissioner of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service is being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Donald Trump that the latest leader of the agency had been installed without his knowledge and at the behest of billionaire Elon Musk,

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.

A federal judge made the decision, saying that DOGE hadn't shown a need for the 'unprecedented, unfettered access' it had wanted.

Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts to burrow into the private data of millions of Americans has been thwarted after a judge issued a temporary injunction banning the billionaire’s goons from getting “unfettered access” to Social Security servers.