Secretary Mnuchin’s response to Chairman Neal’s letter requesting President Trump’s tax returns:
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said his Agency won't make the deadline House Democrats set for IRS to respond to their request for President Trump's Tax returns.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
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| Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said his Agency won't make the deadline House Democrats set for IRS to respond to their request for President Trump's Tax returns. |
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The House Democrats request Trump to provide his Tax returns from 2013 to present and give Treasury a dealine on Wednesday to provide Trump's ax returns; but today Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said his agency won't make the Wednesday deadline House Democrats set for the IRS to respond to their request for President Donald Trump’s tax returns and is consulting with the Department of Justice on how to proceed.
President Trump today doubled down on his position that he won't be making them public -- at least for now.
“I would love to give them, but I'm not going to do it while I'm under audit. It's very simple,” Trump told reporters gathered on the White House South Lawn as he left for a trip to Texas. “Remember, I got elected last time -- the same exact issue, with the same intensity, which wasn't very much because, frankly, the people don't care.”
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Treasury to miss Democrats' deadline for Trump's tax returns, he doubles down: 'I won't do it'
Treasury to miss Democrats' deadline for Trump's tax returns, he doubles down: 'I won't do it' originally appeared on abcnews.go.com
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said his agency won't make the Wednesday deadline House Democrats set for the IRS to respond to their request for President Donald Trump’s tax returns and is consulting with the Department of Justice on how to proceed.
"The legal implications of this request could affect protections for all Americans against politically-motivated of personal tax information, regardless of which party is in power," Mnuchin wrote in a letter to House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass.
Meanwhile, the president on Wednesday doubled down on his position that he won't be making them public -- at least for now.
In doing so, the president reiterated his oft-cited rationale for withholding his tax information -- claiming they were under audit -- although that has never been confirmed.
“I would love to give them, but I'm not going to do it while I'm under audit. It's very simple,” Trump told reporters gathered on the White House South Lawn as he left for a trip to Texas. “Remember, I got elected last time -- the same exact issue, with the same intensity, which wasn't very much because, frankly, the people don't care.”
But less than 24 hours earlier, the president’s IRS commissioner, Charles Rettig, told lawmakers there are no rules prohibiting taxpayers under audit from releasing their tax information.
President Trump on his tax returns: "I would love to give them, but I'm not going to do it while I'm under audit."
"I got elected last time, the same exact issue, with the same intensity, which wasn't very much, because frankly, the people don't care." abcn.ws/2UszaWy
"I think I've answered that question,” Rettig told the House Appropriations Committee during a budget hearing on Wednesday. “No,” he said.
Rettig faced a Wednesday deadline to respond to a letter from Neal who last week formally requested Trump’s business and personal tax information dating back to 2013.
In a hearing Wednesday morning before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Rettig declined to say whether he would comply with Democrats' request.
“We received the letter, we’re working on the letter with counsel, and we anticipate responding,” Rettig told the panel.
The White House has repeatedly rebuffed calls to release the president’s tax returns, maintaining its position that any effort to disclose them amounts to little more than partisan politics.
In a letter to the Treasury Department’s general counsel last week, a new lawyer for Trump, William Consovoy, called the move by Democrats "a gross abuse of power" and encouraged the IRS to "refrain from divulging the requested information."
Over the weekend Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, said Democrats will “never” see Trump’s tax returns, and the president’s personal attorney, Jay Sekulow, slammed Democrats on ABC's “This Week," claiming they were using the president’s taxes as “a political weapon.”
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