Rep. Richie Neal (D-MA), top Dem on House Ways & Means Committee:
"This settlement is corruption in the plainest sight: forcing IRS to abandon every audit, past and present, into Trump, his family, and their businesses while steering $1.8 billion in taxpayer dollars toward his friends, cronies, and Trump-affiliated companies is self-dealing at its most grotesque. The very same Americans who are struggling with groceries and gas are now being forced to bankroll this billionaire’s legal shakedown and the enrichment of his family empire"
House Democrats are asking Trump officials to explain how providers’ social-security numbers got exposed.
“This is the exact type of data that bad actors have used to defraud the Medicare program,” @RepRichardNeal and colleagues write.
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🔴 BREAKING: The highest court in the land has affirmed what we have long argued:
Trump never had the authority to unilaterally jack up costs by hundreds of dollars on the American people.
Democrats will never stop fighting for the rule of law and to lower costs for workers and families.