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David Lebryk

David Lebryk
Acting U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
In office
January 20, 2025 – January 28, 2025
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byJanet Yellen
Succeeded byScott Bessent
Acting U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
In office
January 20, 2025 – January 31, 2025
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byWally Adeyemo
Succeeded byVacant
Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
In office
July 1, 2014 – January 31, 2025
PresidentBarack Obama
Donald Trump
Joe Biden
Donald Trump
Preceded byRichard L. Gregg
Succeeded byVacant
Personal details
EducationHarvard University (BA, MPA)

David Lebryk is a former U.S. government official who served as Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury between 2014 and 2025. For 11 days in January 2025, he served as Acting Secretary of the Treasury and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.

Education and early career

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Lebryk received his B.A. and M.P.A. from Harvard University.[1]

In 1989, Lebryk began his career in the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a Presidential Management Intern.[2] He served as an advisor to two deputy secretaries and three Under Secretaries of the Treasury for Domestic Finance.[3]

Lebryk played a role in establishing the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and served as its first Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary.[3] Between 2002 and 2007, he held leadership roles at the United States Mint, serving as Deputy Director and later as Acting Director.[3]

In December 2007, Lebryk joined the Financial Management Service (FMS).[3] Following a consolidation effort he co-led, which merged the Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD) and FMS, he was appointed as the first Commissioner of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service in 2012.[3]

Fiscal Assistant Secretary

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On June 30, 2014, he was appointed Fiscal Assistant Secretary, the Department of the Treasury's most senior career position.[3][4] In this role, he was responsible for developing policy and overseeing the financial infrastructure of the federal government, including payments, collections, debt financing, cash management, reporting and accounting, delinquent debt collection, and shared services.[3]

Lebryk was Acting Secretary of the Treasury during January 20–28, 2025,[5][6] and performed the duties of the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury during January 20–31, 2025.[7]

He had a dispute with Elon Musk and his surrogates from Department of Government Efficiency who were seeking to access the Bureau of the Fiscal Service payment systems, leading him to resign on January 31, 2025.[2][8]

References

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  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 21, 2025. Retrieved January 21, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ a b Stein, Jeff; Arnsdorf, Isaac; Alemany, Jacqueline (January 31, 2025). "Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system". Washington Post. Archived from the original on February 2, 2025. Retrieved February 4, 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "David Lebryk". U.S. Department of the Treasury. Retrieved January 31, 2024.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ Stein, Jeff (May 21, 2023). "The man in charge of knowing when the U.S. runs out of money". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on May 21, 2023. Retrieved January 20, 2025.
  5. ^ "Trump's already tapped an army of acting officials to lead his agencies". POLITICO. January 20, 2025. Archived from the original on January 27, 2025. Retrieved January 28, 2025.
  6. ^ "Officials | U.S. Department of the Treasury". treasury.gov. Archived from the original on January 21, 2025.
  7. ^ "Officials | U.S. Department of the Treasury". treasury.gov. Archived from the original on January 28, 2025.
  8. ^ Duehren, Andrew; Rappeport, Alan; Schleifer, Theodore; Swan, Jonathan; Haberman, Maggie (January 31, 2025). "Treasury Official Quits After Resisting Musk's Requests on Payments". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 1, 2025. Retrieved February 1, 2025.
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Political offices
Preceded by United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
Acting

2025
Vacant
Preceded by United States Secretary of the Treasury
Acting

2025
Succeeded by