President Trump's lawyers have issued a letter fighting Democrats' tax return request
"This is a hill and people would be willing to die on it," the official said. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal formally requested six years of Trump's personal tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service in a letter Wednesday.
But in a detailed letter to the general counsel of the Treasury Department on Friday, Consovoy said that"the committee's authority is subject to important constraints," which, he said, citing the tax code,"extend to the ordinary taxpayer and the President alike.
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