Pres. Trump’s personal attorney Jay Sekulow fired back at the House Ways and Means Committee’s bid for the president’s tax returns on Sunday, arguing the request does not serve a 'legitimate legislative purpose.'
, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., cited Section 6103 of the federal tax code, an obscure, nearly hundred-year-old provision, which says that the Treasury Secretary "shall furnish such committee with any return or return information specified in such request."
In a letter to the Treasury Department’s general counsel on Friday, 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." "The president has said he turns this over to the attorney general," Sekulow said Sunday. "The attorney general, pursuant to the regulations, George, makes the determination as to what’s released, how it’s released."
But a report in the New York Times suggesting "some" of Mueller's investigators believe Barr has "failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry" breathed new life into the debate over Barr’s handling of the report.
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