Top Treasury Official Announces Resignation — Comes at the Same Time Elon Musk and DOGE Team Discover Treasury Is Funding Terrorist Groups

February 1, 2025

David Lebryk (Credit: U.S. Department of the Treasury)

David Lebryk, the top-ranking career U.S. Treasury Department official, will leave his post where he has been a top official for years.

Elon Musk and the DOGE team are currently examining the treasury payment systems.

Lebryk clashed with Musk over access to a “sensitive system” used to pay over $6 trillion a year in Social Security and Medicare benefits.

The results of the audit may not bode well for David Lebryk.

According to Elon Musk, the payment approval officers were told to ALWAYS approve payments, even to fraudulent groups or terrorist organizations!

“The DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups. They literally never denied a payment in their entire career. Not even once,” Musk wrote.

The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.

They literally never denied a payment in their entire career.

Not even once. https://t.co/kInoGWdw4C

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 1, 2025

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene weighed in on this bombshell revelation.

“What is the point in even having payment officers at the Treasury if they were directed to literally pay anyone and everyone no matter what?! Even terrorists! The outright rot that is being uncovered and ripped out of our government right now is shocking. Thank God!”

What is the point in even having payment officers at the Treasury if they were directed to literally pay anyone and everyone no matter what?!

Even terrorists!

The outright rot that is being uncovered and ripped out of our government right now is shocking.

Thank God! https://t.co/CK6JVU4oI2

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) February 1, 2025

Lebryk reportedly stepped down following a clash with Trump adviser Elon Musk over payment system access, the Washington Post reported on Friday.

The news outlet reported:

The highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department left the agency after a clash with allies of billionaire Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private talks.
David A. Lebryk, who served in nonpolitical roles at Treasury for several decades, announced his retirement Friday in an email to colleagues that was obtained by The Washington Post. President Donald Trump named Lebryk acting secretary upon taking office last week. Lebryk had a dispute with Musk’s surrogates over access to the payment system the U.S. government uses to disburse trillions of dollars every year, the people said. The exact nature of the disagreement was not immediately clear, they said.
Officials affiliated with Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” have been asking since after the election for access to the system, the people said — requests that were reiterated more recently, including after Trump’s inauguration. Tom Krause, a Silicon Valley executive who has now been detailed to Treasury, is among those involved, the people said. Krause did not respond to requests for comment.

This comes after Scott Bessent was sworn in to serve as Trump’s Treasury secretary.

Meanwhile, Musk aides have locked career staff out of computer systems at the US government personnel agency.

MUSK AIDES LOCK CAREER STAFF OUT OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS AT U.S. GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL AGENCY, SOURCES SAY- RTRS

Oh look, a countercoup

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 31, 2025

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