Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin reacted on Thursday to the Supreme Court ruling that President Trump must turn over his tax returns to a New York grand jury by slamming Congress.
“The only thing I do agree on in that report is when things go to Congress, they tend to get leaked, and when things go to a grand jury, they don’t,” he told CNBC.
Trump’s accountants will have to hand over years of financial records and tax returns after the Supreme Court ruled that he did not have immunity from a grand jury investigation in New York.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., a Democrat, will be permitted to see the returns. The grand jury will be able to view the tax returns if they are presented as evidence in the trial.
The justices voted 7-2 in the first of two opinions released on Thursday examining the limits of presidential power and the contours of congressional oversight.
Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s two appointees to the court, joined the majority.
However, Trump prevailed in the second case: The justices said the high court would not allow Congress to obtain tax and financial records, kicking the issue back to the lower courts.
