Developments in two major court cases illustrate how House Democrats may be getting closer to obtaining Pres. Trump’s tax returns, even as Congress is away from Washington on summer recess
Developments in two major court cases this week illustrate how House Democrats may be getting closer to obtaining President Donald Trump’s tax returns, even as Congress is away from Washington on summer recess.
On Tuesday, lawyers representing the Ways and Means Committee submitted to the court records that included an exchange of correspondence between the panel’s chairman, Rep. Richard Neal, D-N.Y., and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. In court records, attorneys for House Ways and Means said they have been investigating “whether the IRS’s self-imposed policy of annually auditing the returns of sitting Presidents is working properly.”
The Trump Organization had filed a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank and Capitol One in April as part of an effort to prevent them from turning over to Congress documents about the Trumps and their businesses.
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