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BumRushDaShow

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7. To respond
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 08:29 PM
Jul 9
Dozens of such requests (and attendant deadlines) have been made to the administration. I'm not aware of any that have resulted in the production of the requested documents.


During 45's first term, when he broke tradition and refused to turn over any of his tax returns and other financial records, before Democrats took over Congress, the same types of requests WERE made AND were ignored. When Democrats took over, they then used that as as jumping off point to escalate, including through subpoenas, to get that info -

Donald Trump's Tax Returns: Democrats Will Demand President's Records With House Majority

They finally worked through the Courts to get a response -

Trump's former accounting firm to turn over financial documents to House Democrats

We've had this conversation multiple times this year and many of those deadlines have passed. Feel free to find one where the "investigation" was provided with what they requested.


Because you fail to understand how Congress works. I have had to respond to Congressional inquiries over the course of my 30+ years in the federal government. In the "old" days, someone in HQ who got the request would make a copy and then FAX it to the various District offices and then additional copies were made locally for each Branch with a "buck slip" attached to pass around to all of the employees, so that we could review the request, and then go through our documents and look for anything responsive. If we had something, we would hand it to a supervisor and the District folks would consolidate the responses, would box them up, and then ship them down to our HQ office.

When we finally got computers and a LAN, those requests went out over "ALL EMPLOYEES" emails.

All they're going to get is a talking point for the next time they have five minutes to question someone before the committee from the relevant agency or department.


Again, why not stop trying to be the contrarian and learn something?

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