Washington, D.C. — On Friday, January 30, U.S. Rep Richard Neal (D – Massachusetts 1st Congressional District) released the following statement as a ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee on President Donald Trump’s “record failure of a first year”:
The verdict of the President’s first year back in office is failure. He failed the people with his central promise to bring costs down. With nothing to show for workers and families, the President has chosen an endless pursuit of chaos and unlawfulness to line his own pocket and bend his agenda to those he favors. It’s his failures that have left Americans strapped with higher prices, soaring health care costs, and dwindling opportunities in the job market.
The President’s carelessness and obsession with seizing power and territory, weaponizing the government, and bailing out his friends is putting Americans in harm’s way, forced to pay for his tariffs and billionaire handouts.
It’s been a year of needless suffering, and while the Republican majority refuses any accountability, the American people see exactly what this President has delivered: higher prices, less security, and a government working for billionaires instead of them.
Also on Friday, Rep. Neal released this statement on “Trump using the courts to line his pockets with your tax dollars”:
There’s no length Trump and his family won’t go to enrich themselves on the backs of American taxpayers. Trump has always used lawsuits to dodge accountability, and after years of shielding his own tax-dodging and fighting every transparency measure, he’s doing it again, but this time he’s dragging the IRS into court, using his own head of the DOJ as the arbiter, and stealing from taxpayers.
Ways and Means Democrats conducted the oversight Republicans refused to do, exposing the extent of Trump’s tax evasion. Republicans will once again return to silence, enabling his corruption and letting him resort to his same corrupt abuse of the court to avoid accountability. This lawsuit isn’t about justice. It’s another scheme to rob America blind, and Democrats will do whatever is necessary to force Republicans on the record as protectors of Trump’s corruption.
