The U.S. Treasury Department has experienced a "dramatic exodus" of officials during President Donald Trump's second term under Secretary Scott Bessent, according to a new report.

At least four of the seven top Treasury officials have departed after disagreements with the White House over "demands to stretch, if not violate, tax law," NOTUS reported Wednesday.

Seven of the 16 Treasury appointees confirmed by the Senate — roughly 44% — have either "quit or been pushed out of their positions" since Trump resumed office, according to the Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan watchdog.

That figure does not account for additional staffing changes within Bessent's own office, where he has cycled through at least three different chiefs of staff since the start of the administration.

The internal disputes have included Treasury "resistance" to a push to use taxpayer data as part of the administration's immigration crackdown, as well as the president's effort to establish a $1.8 billion fund to compensate allies as part of a deal under which the IRS would drop any past or future tax audits of the president and his family. That "anti-weaponization" fund was ultimately dropped after resistance from Senate Republicans. The fight over taxpayer data touches one of the most tightly guarded categories of federal information: Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code generally bars disclosure of tax returns and return information, and unauthorized disclosure is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

Mark Mazur, who held senior positions at the IRS under both parties and served as acting assistant secretary for tax policy in the Biden Treasury Department, said officials are reluctant to comply with questionable directives.

"They're asking them to do stuff that is well beyond the norm, and for some things that may or may not be legal," Mazur told NOTUS. "A lot of these people expect to have a career after this administration, and being disbarred would be a bad thing for them."

The level of turnover among Treasury's senior ranks is far higher than under any other treasury secretary this century, indicating that even Republican tax officials have resisted Trump's demands, according to the report. By the same point in their terms, the Obama and Biden administrations had lost zero Senate-confirmed appointees, according to the Partnership for Public Service, while the Bush administration and the first Trump administration had each lost two. The vacancies carry institutional weight: Senate-confirmed officials such as the assistant secretary for tax policy traditionally steer the Treasury office that writes regulations and guidance implementing tax law, and when those posts sit empty the work falls to acting officials and career staff. The churn also comes as the IRS is implementing the sweeping tax-and-spending package Trump signed into law in 2025, which assigned the agency a broad set of new provisions to put into effect.