Opinion: Democrats drag their feet on Trump’s tax returns — at exactly the wrong time, ThePlumLineGS writes
By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 1 at 2:29 PM President Trump’s absurd claim that a four-page summary of the Russia investigation’s findings grants him “total exoneration,” and his efforts to bully Democrats and the media into groveling for forgiveness for supposedly having gotten this scandal wrong, are all about what lies ahead.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has delegated the job of getting at Trump’s tax returns to Rep. Richard E. Neal , the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Under the law, the committee can request any individual’s tax returns, after which the Treasury Department “shall” furnish them. Enter the Center for American Progress memo, which argues at length that the law is unambiguously clear. “If Congress asks for any tax returns, the [Internal Revenue Service] must provide them,” the memo says.
Along those lines, the memo further argues that doing this would represent a thoroughly legitimate and reasonable exercise of Congress’s oversight function. Among the reasons:
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