Grassley says he wants Trump's tax returns when House gets them

WASHINGTON — One of the few Republicans with the power to request President Donald Trump’s tax returns wants to make sure that if House Democrats are successful in getting them, he wants to see them too.

“If the House of Representatives gets them, I want the Senate Finance Committee to get them,” Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the panel’s chairman, told reporters Wednesday.

Grassley is one of the few members of Congress, as the head of the Senate tax-writing committee, who has the authority to view the returns of any taxpayer, including the president’s. His counterpart in the House, Richard Neal, the Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is moving toward asking the U.S. Treasury Department to hand over Trump’s tax documents.

Neal has declined to give a timetable for when he will submit his request, but Rep. Bill Pascrell, a New Jersey Democrat, says his “gut feeling” is that the Ways and Means Committee is about two weeks away from sending the formal inquiry to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

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So he's going to try and defend Trump if something nefarious is found.