Treasury Official Quits After Resisting Musk’s Requests on Payments
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.
As it turns out this government official that retired from the Treasury Department by the name of David Lebryk used to sit behind me in Geometry class during our second year of high school. I had not recognized the name until another friend from high school pointed out that Dave Lebryk was in our high school graduation class. Dave went off to Harvard in 1979 and we, my friend and I, had not heard from him since. In Geometry class if you were going to cheat off another student you would have picked Dave. His mother was a teacher in our high school. She taught advanced English classes so obviously I never took one of her classes.
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