Lawmakers squabble after Democrat demand for Trump tax returns: Oversight or presidential harassment?

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Sen. Lindsey Graham: 'I think you should release your tax returns, if you're running for president in 2020.' Lawmakers split as they respond to Pres. Trump's claims that an audit is keeping him from releasing his tax returns.

In the wake of a Democratic request to the IRS to obtain copies of six years of President Trump’s personal and business

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington Feb. 28, 2019. The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee forcefully pushed back on Democrats' request, warning the move weaponizes the tax code. Asked whether the IRS commissioner should comply with the law and allow Ways and Means chairman Richard Neal to review the president’s tax returns, Scalise said “ultimately that's going to be something the IRS commissioner is going to have to decide.”

Rep. Dan Kildee, a Democratic member of the Ways and Means committee, stressed he expects the IRS commissioner to follow the law and fulfil the chairman’s request.

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