Treasury Watchdog Probes Mnuchin's Missing Tax Analysis
- Review is ‘top priority’ though timeframe isn’t yet clear
- Senator Elizabeth Warren requested inquiry in letter Thursday
Deficit Hawks Prompt Delay of Senate Tax Bill Votes
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The Treasury Department’s inspector general is examining whether political considerations interfered with Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s promised analysis of the Republican tax proposal.
“It’s a top priority,” Rich Delmar, counsel to inspector general Eric Thorson, said Thursday in an email. Delmar said he could not provide a timeframe for when the inquiry would be complete because it would depend on how quickly the department’s official watchdog receives the information and “how complex issues are.”