Top Treasury Official Abruptly Resigns… Just As Elon Musk’s DOGE Uncovers Payments to Terrorist Groups

Top-ranking, long-standing U.S. Treasury Department official  has just announced his resignation.

Lebryk’s decision to leave his post after several decades comes just as Elon Musk’s DOGE team is investigating the treasury payment systems.

DOGE had asked Lebryk to give them access to the payment system for auditing purposes.

However, instead of complying, Lebryk resigned altogether…

The highest ranking Treasury official, David A Lebryk, is resigning rather than complying with a request by @DOGE for access to audit where they’ve spent trillions of dollars a year. Why would career bureaucrats fear an audit by @elonmusk and @doge to see where we can save money? pic.twitter.com/lccLXJOL6M

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 31, 2025

DOGE: David Lebryk, the former Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury controlled the computerized payment system the government using to pay out $6 trillion a year. He refused to give Trump's team access to the system to conduct an audit. He decided to retire instead of… pic.twitter.com/1BBuCuFxZ2

— @amuse (@amuse) January 31, 2025

The Washington Post reported on Lebryk’s departure from the department:

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.

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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.

A spokeswoman for DOGE declined to comment. Lebryk could not be reached for comment.

The New York Times added:

The Trump administration pushed out a top Treasury Department official this week after he refused to give Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team access to the government’s vast payment system, part of a bid by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency to choke off federal funding.

David Lebryk, a career civil servant who oversaw the more than one billion payments that the federal government makes every year, was placed on administrative leave this week after resisting requests from Mr. Musk’s lieutenants, according to people familiar with the circumstances, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive internal dynamics.

On Friday, Mr. Lebryk — who had briefly served as acting Treasury secretary until the confirmation of Scott Bessent this week — told colleagues that he would retire after more than 35 years of working for the government.

Mr. Lebryk’s abrupt departure raises questions about whether Mr. Musk will now gain control of the payment system — and, if so, how he could use it. His exit also underscores the extraordinary amount of power that Mr. Musk, whose current employment status inside the federal government remains unclear, is accumulating at the opening of the second Trump administration.

If this sounds incredibly suspicious, it’s because it is.

You see, in their auditing, DOGE has already found something very disturbing.

According to Elon Musk, the Treasury has been funding known terrorist groups.

How?

Well, the Treasury payment approval officers were given orders to always approve payments and have never, once, denied a payment…even to very questionable organizations.

Here’s what he had to say on X:

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

MTG weighed in on the shocking discovery:

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

From Newsmax:

On Saturday, Elon Musk, chair of the Department of Government Efficiency, said the U.S. Treasury approved payments to terrorists.

“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 posted on X.

Musk’s post came as a comment to filmmaker Robby Starbuck’s post: “The highest ranking Treasury official, David A Lebryk, is resigning rather than complying with a request by @DOGE for access to audit where they’ve spent trillions of dollars a year. Why would career bureaucrats fear an audit by @elonmusk and @doge to see where we can save money?”