Top White House adviser Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly engaged in a fiery argument about the IRS while in the halls of the West Wing that witnesses compared to a professional wrestling match.
Sources told Axios that Bessent and Musk strongly disagreed last week over who should lead the IRS, former acting Commissioner Gary Shapley or Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender, at an April 17 meeting in the Oval Office.
Bessent also reportedly criticized Musk for overpromising and underdelivering on the amount his Department of Government Efficiency would cut from the federal budget and Musk reportedly hit Bessent as an ''agent'' of George Soros and said he ran ''a failed hedge fund'' before joining President Donald Trump's administration.
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Axios: Musk, Bessent in White House 'Shouting Match'
- by: Theodore Bunker
- 04.23.25
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- 04/24/2025
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