Top Democrat sets new deadline for Trump's tax returns

By Colin Wilhelm

Published April 13, 2019 1:45pm ET

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Top Democrat sets new deadline for Trump's tax returns — House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., arrives for a Democratic Caucus meeting at the Capitol in Washington, on April 2, 2019. Rep. Neal, whose committee has jurisdiction over all tax issues, has formally requested President Donald Trump's tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service for the past 6 years. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress and the Trump administration are inching closer to a legal fight over President Trump’s tax returns.

House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., wrote Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Saturday with a new deadline to transmit Trump’s tax returns after Mnuchin missed Neal’s original April 10 deadline. The Ways and Means chairman now wants the administration to provide Trump’s tax returns to his committee by April 23.

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