Mnuchin: Never Discussed Trump's Tax Returns With WH

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told the House Financial Services Committee he has never discussed with President Donald Trump "or anyone in the White House about delivering the president’s tax returns to Congress," Axios is reporting.

Mnuchin has said he will not comply with a subpoena from House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., for six years of the president's tax returns because the request "lacks a legitimate legislative purpose."

However, The Washington Post reported an internal draft memo at the IRS argued the agency should comply with the requests for Trump's tax returns.

"The memo was marked 'draft,' it was not a final memo," Mnuchin said at the committee hearing. "I don't know how it got to The Washington Post. It would have been more interesting if it had got to me or the commissioner to review."

Mnuchin said he briefly read the memo while on his way to the committee hearing. He maintained the Justice Department had assured him it would be "unlawful" for him to deliver Trump's tax returns, according to Axios.

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