By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Updated: 1:06 p.m. on Wednesday, December 20, 2017
A top Democratic senator said Wednesday he fears the IRS may be too biased to handle the audit of President Trump’s taxes, saying the fact that the agency is led by an acting commissioner who is also a top Trump political appointee at the main Treasury Department is worrisome.
Sen. Ron Wyden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said an agency already roiled by problems of political taint stemming from the tea party targeting needs to be extra careful to avoid conflicts now.
“Yet, we now face a situation where the acting IRS commissioner is concurrently one of the president’s principle tax advisors,†Mr. Wyden wrote in a letter to David Kautter, the man in question.
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