U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), the new Chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, today called on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig to testify before the panel next week to address several issues, including revelations of possible tax evasion and avoidance by Donald Trump.
“To attempt to restore this trust you must first start by… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr., Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, reacted to the stunning revelations of fraud and criminality revealed in a New York Times report exposing Donald Trump’s tax returns. Rep. Pascrell has been leading Congress’s efforts to obtain trumps tax returns since February of 2017.
“As the leader of Congress’s fight to obtain Donald Trump… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), New Jersey’s only member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, today told Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin point blank that Mnuchin was breaking the law by refusing to turn over Donald Trump’s business and personal tax returns to the Committee. Since April 3, 2019, Mnuchin has refused to comply with a request from Chairman Richard Neal… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, has written to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin calling for answers to a new report alleging that Mnuchin’s department is providing financial records of Hunter Biden to U.S. senators.
“I was encouraged when I read the headline of a report today noting that your department is focusing… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) reacted to the revelation by the House Ways and Means Committee of records of Richard Nixon’s tax returns that were obtained in 1973 and 1974 by the Joint Committee on Taxation under 26 U.S.C. § 6103(f).
“We already know that the law is on our side, but the primary sources released today are living proof of Congress’s power under Section 6103,”… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today reacted with ridicule to a report that Donald Trump was suing the House Ways and Means Committee, as well as the state of New York, to block release of his business and personal tax returns.
“We’re entering Alice in Wonderland territory,” stated Rep. Pascrell, a senior member of the Ways and Means Committee. “First Congress was forced to sue… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, praised the lawsuit filed by the Committee against the Treasury Department, the Internal Revenue Service, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig to compel the release of Donald Trump’s business and personal tax returns pursuant to Chairman Richard Neal’s… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) issued the following statement in response to the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel opinion providing legal justification for Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s repeated refusal to furnish the Trump tax returns to Congress:
“That Trump and Barr drop this so-called legal opinion on a Friday evening says all there is about what they… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) reacted to a new report that a confidential Internal Revenue Service analysis concluded that the agency had to provide Donald Trump’s tax returns to Congress pursuant to Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal’s (D-MA-01) request under 26 U.S. Code § 6103(f).
“Steve Mnuchin’s performance this morning was typically… Read more »
Today, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) reacted to House Ways and Means Charmain Richard Neal’s (D-MA-01) decision to issue subpoenas for the Trump Tax Returns.
"This move is necessary only because Trump, Mnuchin, and Rettig have signaled their disdain for our laws over and over again. Chairman Neal is upholding the sacred prerogative of the Article I branch against a regime openly… Read more »
