Mnuchin reveals White House lawyers consulted Treasury on Trump tax returns, despite law meant to limit White House involvement
By Damian Paletta Damian Paletta Reporter covering economic policy Email Bio Follow April 9 at 10:53 AM Treasury Department lawyers consulted with the White House general counsel’s office about the potential release of President Trump’s tax returns before House Democrats formally requested the records, Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin said Tuesday.
Democrats are asking for six years of Trumps’ returns, using a federal law that Federal law says the Treasury secretary “shall follow” the request of House or Senate chairmen in releasing tax return information. The process is designed to be walled off from White House interference, in part because of corruption that took place during the Teapot Dome scandal in the 1920s.
“I believe that the communication between our legal department and the White House general counsel was informational,” Mnuchin told a House appropriations subcommittee. “We had obviously read in the press that we were expecting this. I personally wasn’t involved in those conversations.”
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