The IRS is at the center of a political storm over audits conducted on former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
Both had high-profile fights with former President Trump, and the rare audits were conducted on Trump’s watch under the Trump-appointed IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig.
Lawmakers on Thursday were calling for a full investigation into whether the two Trump adversaries had been illegally targeted, and if so, how.
“The possibility that the former President or someone in the White House, his cabinet, his appointees, or leadership working under the Trump-appointed IRS Commissioner may have requested an audit of those deemed disloyal is alarming,” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) said in a statement Thursday.
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