Democrats Ask Watchdog To Investigate The IRS For Not Auditing Trump

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Posted on Mon, Jan 23rd, 2023 by Jason Easley
Democrats Ask Watchdog To Investigate The IRS For Not Auditing Trump


House Ways and Means Democrats have requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate the IRS for not auditing Trump.

Politico reported:

The committee Democrats want the GAO to probe why the IRS didn’t ask Treasury or Congress for more resources if the agency was struggling to fully audit Trump’s voluminous returns.

The lawmakers also ask in their letter what administrative actions the IRS and Treasury could take and what laws Congress could consider passing to protect the program from potential meddling.

“Members of Congress need further information related to the failures to conduct presidential audits during the Trump Administration to ensure that, as elected representatives, we are adequately equipped to assess and address the integrity and continued function of the presidential audit program, as well as necessary improvements to the program,” they wrote.

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https://www.politicususa.com/2023/01/23/democrats-ask-watchdog-to-investigate-the-irs-for-not-auditing-trump.html

[cilla4progress]

1. BE

RELENTLESS!!!

ENERGY!!

[DENVERPOPS]

5. And add in

an investigation into how Trump got the IRS to specifically target his enemies with the highest level of audit........and prosecute whomever it was that followed his orders..............

The problem is, who knows how many of the DOJ, FBI, Secret Service, Treasury, Federal Marshals, etc are Trump sympathizers, and now are assigned to conducting the investigations.................

[Just A Box Of Rain]

2. Seems more than reasonable, since--as I understand it--auditing presidential tax returns

is standard practice.

The IRS not doing that seems like an aberration from policy, and--why this happened--should be explained.

[GoCubsGo]

3. They will find that Trump installed a loyalist at the head of the IRS,

and he saw to it that there were no audits for the four years Trump was in office.

[2naSalit]

4. Mnuchen...

That asshole was in charge.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. Wonder what Committee could have/should have asked

The question a couple years ago when Michael Cohen.brought up the whole IRS/no tax thing
. I remember thinking at the time, what the hell IRS. Now years later. But I guess that was when Trump's people were in charge. What a creep