DPCC Co-Chair Hakeem Jeffries Calls on President Trump to Release Tax Returns in Conversation with MSNBC's Katy Tur
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, Co-Chair of the House Democratic Policy & Communications Committee (DPCC), joined MSNBC's Katy Tur to discuss President Trump's failure to keep his word and release his tax returns to the American people. Below are excerpts from the interview and a link to the video:
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"Donald Trump is now the President so there is a higher standard in terms of the way he should conduct himself. Every President since Gerald Ford, Democrats and Republicans, have released their taxes…There is a certain Presidential standard that should be kept. Why does Donald Trump believe he should be held to a different standard?"
"He is a supposed billionaire. He's got conflicts of interests all across a variety of business entanglements...The American people deserve to see his tax returns to figure out does Donald Trump have our best interest at heart or does he have the best interest of some of his cronies or other business friendships and partnerships? The only way to figure that out is to look at his tax returns."
"I don't think the everyday average American, working families, the middle class folks that I represent in Brooklyn and Queens…want the type of tax reform that will only benefit the top 1% in the United States of America."
"What we want is job creation; the ability to deal with the wage stagnation problem that has impacted the country for 40 plus years; [to] put people back to work in meaningful employment; [to] strengthen social security; and deal with the high cost of a college education. I think that's what the average everyday American want. They don't want the tax reform that House Republicans Paul Ryan and Donald Trump are trying to jam down the throats of the American people – which is designed to benefit corporations as well as the wealthy and the well off."