.MaddowBlog: Treasury Sec. Mnuchin takes fight over Pres. Trump’s tax returns to a new level.
Close video The Rachel Maddow Show, 4/10/19, 9:00 PM ET Mnuchin buys more time for Trump on tax return request Rachel Maddow reports on a letter from Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin that he will not meet Democrats’ deadline for producing six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns and will instead consult with the Justice Department, despite the law being plain on share tweet email save Embed It should have been a relatively straightforward process.
In a letter to Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Mnuchin said the Treasury was continuing to review Democrats’ request in light of “serious issues” about whether the request is proper. As Rep. Lloyd Doggett , a member of the Ways and Means Committee, said in a written statement, “How many lawyers and how much time does it take for Secretary Mnuchin to understand that ‘shall’ means ‘shall’?”At this point, we’re in a bit of a holding pattern. The IRS was supposed to make the tax materials available, but it didn’t, handing this off to Treasury. Mnuchin should make the returns available, but he’s decided to contemplate for a while whether and how to follow the law.
It seems likely that all of this will soon be pushed to the federal courts, where the president may have some confidence that the U.S. Supreme Court and its five-member conservative majority will protect him.
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