The White House claims it is making progress on tax reform and could roll out part of its plan next week, but the president’s increasingly contentious relationship with lawmakers on the Hill has put a pall over the effort’s progress. President Donald Trump has been using Twitter to blast Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and reportedly…
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A group of 151 conservative Republican congressmen are calling for the Internal Revenue Service to be abolished, calling it an “inefficient behemoth weighing down our economy.” “At its worst, the IRS has shown a capacity for outright corruption and political targeting,” the Republican Study Committee wrote in its budget released Thursday. “Under the Obama Administration, the…
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Six years before she became the central figure in the IRS’s illegal targeting of Tea Party tax-exemption applicants, Lois Lerner cleared the way for the Clinton Foundation’s transformation from building a presidential library to being a $2 billion global political influence peddling machine, according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group. She…
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