Liberals target Ways and Means chairman with primary challenge

By Susan Ferrechio

Published July 22, 2019 1:18pm ET

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Liberals target Ways and Means chairman with primary challenge — FILE - In this May 9, 2019 file photo, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. | (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

The mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts announced he will launch a primary challenge against House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, who liberals say “had to be dragged kicking and screaming to request Trump’s tax returns.”

Neal, 70, is among the highest-ranking House Democrat targeted so far by liberals, who are eager to push the Democratic caucus further to the left in the next election.

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