Pelosi’s Chief of Staff: Speaker Will Release Tax Returns ‘If and When She Runs for President’
By Emily Ward | February 22, 2019 | 11:55 AM EST
(CNSNews.com) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) “will gladly release her tax returns if and when she runs for president,†said her Chief of Staff Drew Hammill, apparently indicating that, in Pelosi’s current position as speaker, she will not release her tax returns.
When CNSNews.com repeatedly followed-up and asked Hammill to directly confirm that Pelosi, as speaker, would not release her tax returns, Hammill did not respond.
Pelosi, who was born on March 26, 1940, will turn 79 next month--and has not announced that she is running for president in 2020.
CNSNews.com has been trying for two weeks by email and telephone to get a direct answer from Speaker Pelosi on this tax-return question because she has co-sponsored legislation (H.R. 1) that would require the president and vice president to release their tax returns. Under 3 U.S. Code 19 (enacted under Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 of the Constitution), the Speaker of the House is third in line to the presidency.
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