Trump wants more tax cuts for the rich while cutting unemployment for millions
Trump wants to cut the capital gains tax, which would primarily benefit the richest Americans.
By Emily Singer - August 12, 2020Trump wants to cut the capital gains tax, which would primarily benefit the richest Americans.
By Emily Singer - August 12, 2020The Trump administration admitted on Monday there are ‘a lot of kids out there’ who are hungry.
By Emily Singer - August 10, 2020Democrats say they fear the Treasury Department has favored large, well-funded companies over smaller businesses in underserved communities.
By Associated Press - June 15, 2020Steve Mnuchin also said that safety rules shouldn’t be reinstated, even if COVID-19 cases spike.
By Josh Israel - June 11, 2020Multiple Trump administration officials have resigned in disgrace for abusing taxpayer dollars.
By Emily Singer - May 20, 2020The Trump administration ‘has no basis whatsoever to refuse to comply with this request,’ said Rep. Richard Neal, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 07, 2020Republican lawmakers want to reopen the country’s economy. They admit doing so will lead to more loss of life.
By Emily Singer - May 06, 2020Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday evening that there were no plans to lift the rules.
By Associated Press - April 22, 2020Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Thursday the economy could be reopened in May.
By Josh Israel - April 09, 2020The Trump administration has repeatedly minimized national concerns about the growing COVID-19 epidemic.
By Oliver Willis - March 13, 2020‘We need an adult in the room to manage these issues,’ Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff said.
By Associated Press - March 13, 2020Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said the administration is looking into more cuts in response to the growing COVID-19 outbreak.
By Emily Singer - March 03, 2020‘Mnuchin is either somehow ignorant of mountains of evidence on this front, or he’s being intentionally misleading,’ said Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 13, 2020Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is the latest to mock Time’s 17-year-old Person of the Year.
By Josh Israel - January 23, 2020The Trump administration is still facing questions about the justification for the drone strike that killed an Iranian general.
By Associated Press - January 10, 2020The Treasury secretary wants to block taxpayers from knowing the full cost of Donald Trump’s golf outings.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 09, 2020The senators, led by Ted Cruz (R-TX), claimed the move would benefit the economy, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
By Mike Stankiewicz - July 31, 2019Congress has demanded and obtained presidential tax records in the past, despite claims by the Trump administration that the current effort is ‘unprecedented.’
By Dan Desai Martin - July 26, 2019Mnuchin stopped the Treasury Department from putting Tubman on the $20 bill, likely because Trump hates the idea. Now he faces an inspector general investigation for doing so.
By Lisa Needham - June 25, 2019Trump’s Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin is white, male, and rich. So are almost all of his top people.
By Lisa Needham - June 12, 2019Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is still making excuses for defying Congress to protect Trump.
By Oliver Willis - May 31, 2019Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is continuing to deny that he’s breaking the law by not handing Trump’s tax returns to Congress.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 22, 2019Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin could land himself in court for protecting Trump.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 17, 2019Mnuchin is part of Trump’s culture of corruption.
By Oliver Willis - May 08, 2019Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin refuses to follow the law requiring him to hand Congress six years of Trump’s taxes.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 06, 2019Trump thinks he doesn’t have to cooperate with congressional investigations. He’s wrong.
By Lisa Needham - April 24, 2019Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin may hire disgraced Fox News alum Monica Crowley, who has twice been accused of plagiarism.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 17, 2019The Treasury Department refused to meet the deadline to hand over six years of Trump’s tax returns to Congress.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 11, 2019The GOP never demanded President Obama’s taxes because he publicly released them.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 09, 2019Trump’s nominee to lead the Interior Department continued to lobby for the very industry he will be regulating — after he signed paperwork saying he was no longer lobbying.
By Emily Singer - April 04, 2019