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Sarah Sanders: "I do not think Congress" is "smart enough" to look at Trump's taxes
"It's a dangerous road and frankly, Chris, I do not think Congress, and in particular this group of parliamentarians, is smart enough to go through the thousands of pages that I suppose President Trump's taxes will be," Sanders told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace.
"I think most of them do not pay their own taxes, and I certainly do not trust them to look through the decades of success that the president has and to determine anything." she said, adding that attempts to get the returns are "a disgusting litter."
Earlier this month, House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal officially asked the Internal Revenue Service to submit Trump's statements citing IRS code 6103, a 1920s tax law. which was little known until recently. The law stipulates that three persons: the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chair of the Joint Committee on Taxation and the Speaker of the Senate in charge of Finance may ask anyone for personal tax information. He made a second request on Saturday.
While Neal argued that the committee needed Trump's tax information to oversee the presidential audit program, a program not inscribed in the law but become a routine procedure at the IRS that provides for the taxpayer's role. the arrival of a new president, Sanders argues that the use of the law by the committee "has nothing to do with the point of whether they will determine the policy or not to follow".
"It's all about partisan politics," she told Wallace.
Neal's office did not immediately respond to CNN's request regarding Sanders' statements on his Sunday.
In the letter that Neal sent Saturday to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, the president indicated that he felt that his committee was quite entitled to consult the president's tax returns and that He was waiting for an IRS decision before 5 pm April 23.
CNN, Lauren Fox and Donna Borak contributed to this report.
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