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Neal Won’t Ask for Trump’s State Tax Returns

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House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) is the only Democrat allowed by a pending New York state law to ask for President Trump’s state tax returns, but so far he has said he won’t do it, Accounting Today reports.

“Neal has said he fears that getting the state returns would bolster Trump administration arguments that Congress is on a political fishing expedition — and not, as Neal has claimed, overseeing the Internal Revenue Service’s annual audits of the president.”

“Yet some of Neal’s colleagues have little interest in legal nuance and say the state tax returns are better than none at all.”

Steyer Turns Up Heat on Powerful House Chairman

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Billionaire Tom Steyer, who heads a group trying to impeach President Trump, “launched a television ad buy targeting Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) in his own backyard as part of an effort to get the House Ways and Means chairman to subpoena the president’s tax returns,” Politico reports.

Steyer is trying to “pressure Neal into action, and plans to hire paid staff and launch a door-to-door canvassing effort in the congressman’s district.”

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.

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