Hand It Over

After Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on his Russia investigation found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, some Democrats have been continuing efforts to investigate the president's business dealings and other actions.

During the election, Trump broke the long-standing tradition of presidential candidates releasing their tax returns, saying they were under audit. He has continued to dodge the issue as president.

On Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Committee officially upped the ante in its pursuit of the president's conspicuously buried taxes by formally asking the IRS to turn over six years of Trump's personal and business tax returns.

The Committee is "invoking an authority enshrined in the tax code granted only to the tax-writing committees in Congress that gives the chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee the power to request tax information on any filer," The New York Times reports. “The provision, which dates in some form to the Teapot Dome scandal of Warren G. Harding's administration, at least on its face gives the Trump administration little room to decline a request. It only says that the Treasury secretary 'shall' furnish the information.”

Ocasio-Cortez's tweet referred to the House Ways and Means Committee's request to the IRS for six years of the president's tax records.