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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the federal agency is consulting with the Justice Department regarding House Democrats’ demands for President Donald Trump’s tax returns and will miss the Wednesday deadline to provide them to a committee. In a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, Mnuchin said that such a demand for years’ worth of the president’s personal and business tax records “raises serious issues concerning the constitutional scope of Congressional investigative authority, the legitimacy of the asserted legislative purpose and the constitutional rights of American citizens.” Committee member Jimmy Gomez (D-Cali.) said there will be “at least one more step before going to court” and that Chairman Neal “has a strategy in mind.” Gomez would not elaborate about what the committee’s exact strategy was, and a spokesman for the Ways and Means Committee did not answer Newsweek’s specific questions on the matter. Both Kildee and Gomez said a letter from Trump lawyer William Consovoy sent to Treasury last week lambasting the Democrats' request as a "transparent effort by one political party to harass an official from the other party because they dislike his politics and speech" was meaningless.

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