President Trump’s chief of staff Mick Mulvaney declared Sunday that congressional Democrats would “never” see the president’s tax returns.
Mulvaney also argued, as other Trump aides have done on this issue and others, that the tax-return question was “already litigated” in the 2016 campaign and settled by Trump winning.“This is not political, as our Republican colleagues are making it out to be,” said Rep. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico, the No 4 Democrat in the House. Appearing on Fox, he said the request was “ironclad … and is going forward.
Congressional Republicans — even occasional critics of the president — have given no sign they would push back against the White House’s refusal to disclose Trump’s taxes. Mueller expressly said he did not exonerate the president on obstruction, but Barr, a Trump appointee who takes an expansive view of presidential powers, declared Trump in the clear on that.unidentified members of Mueller’s team as saying Barr’s summary did not reflect the gravity of overall concerns raised about the president’s conduct. On Sunday, the powerful Democrat who heads the House Judiciary Committee, Rep.
Barr is appearing on Capitol Hill this week for what’s meant to be testimony about the Justice Department’s budget appropriation, but Democrats are likely to seize the moment to press him about his decision-making on redactions to the report.
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