David Allen Lebryk is an American former government official who served as

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between 2014 and 2025. For 11 days in January 2025, he served as Acting

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and

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Early life and education

Lebryk was born in Indiana. He graduated from Valparaiso High School, in

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. He studied at the

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. He received his B.A. and M.P.A. from

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Early career

In 1989, Lebryk began his career in the

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as a Presidential Management Intern. He served as an advisor to two deputy secretaries and three Under Secretaries of the Treasury for Domestic Finance. 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. Between 2002 and 2007, he held leadership roles at the

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, serving as Deputy Director and later as Acting Director. In December 2007, Lebryk joined the Financial Management Service (FMS). Following a consolidation effort he co-led, which merged the

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(BPD) and FMS, he was appointed as the first Commissioner of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service in 2012.

Fiscal Assistant Secretary

On June 30, 2014, he was appointed Fiscal Assistant Secretary, the Department of the Treasury's most senior career position. 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. In 2014, Lebryk received American University's Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership. The

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presented him with the Elmer Staats Award in 2018 for outstanding leadership, high ethical standards, and innovation, followed by the Frank Greathouse Distinguished Leadership Award in 2020. Lebryk has also been honored with three Presidential Rank Awards. In 2023, he was named among Federal Computer Week's (FCW) list of 100 outstanding individuals. Additionally, he is a recipient of the Alexander Hamilton Award, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's highest honor. Lebryk was Acting

during January 20–28, 2025, and performed the duties of the

during January 20–31, 2025. He had a dispute with

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and his surrogates from the

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who were seeking to access the

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payment systems, leading him to resign on January 31, 2025.

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