Mick Mulvaney says Democrats will 'never' get to see Trump's tax returns

Mick Mulvaney.
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President Trump's tax returns will "never" be turned over to Democrats, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said on Fox News Sunday, calling their request "a political stunt."

"That is not going to happen and they know it," Mulvaney said, adding that Democrats have no business seeing the returns. Last week, House Ways and Means Chair Richard Neal (D-Mass.) formally requested six years of Trump's tax returns, both personal and business, from the IRS. He is one of three congressional officials with the authority to request the returns, and said he did so in order to review the agency's policy of auditing sitting presidents. He gave the IRS until April 10 to send over the returns.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.