Donald Trump has refused to follow four decades of presidential history and will not release his tax returns, even those returns filed while he is the so-called president.
Rep. Tom Reed claims the Democrats are abusing their power in asking to see them.
The House Ways and Means subcommittee on oversight is scheduled for the afternoon of Feb. 7, called “Legislative Proposals and Tax Law Related to Presidential and Vice-Presidential Tax Returns,” and a list of witnesses.
This has Republicans jumpy.
The Democrats took back the House in part to be an actual check and balance against Trump's behavior and to force Trump to reveal his finances.
CNN's co-host Jim Sciutto interviewed Rep. Reed: "Next week your Democratic colleagues on the Ways and Means committee will hold a hearing on the president's tax returns. Why don't Americans have a right to see what their president's income is and whether he's paying taxes or not?"
Reed replied, "This is going be an interesting debate. This authority that the chairman of the Ways and Means committee has to pull anyone's tax returns...we oughta be careful we are not going down a slippery slope here of just picking for political purposes someone's tax returns for a political process."
What a liar.
