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Trump's state tax records now available, but Neal won't ask for them

Jun 06, 2019 12:23 am
Laura Davison reports for Bloomberg that New York legislators may have passed a law allowing access to the president’s state tax returns. But House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal is the only Democrat who is allowed to ask for them, and, so far, he says he will not. “At this moment in time Chairman Neal has taken this position, but we’ll see how he decides to proceed in the face of continued obstruction from the administration,” Representative Hakeem Jeffries said in an interview June 5. “That that may cause the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee to change his mind.” Neal has already asked Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin three times for six years of Trump’s federal personal and business returns, which he should get under a 1924 law that requires the Treasury secretary to provide them. Mnuchin has refused the request four times, the last time after a subpoena. Read more about this story at the Bloomberg website.