Article snippet: The Trump administration is expected to miss the Wednesday deadline set by Democrats to hand over MORE’s tax returns, raising the odds that the battle will turn into a lengthy court fight. Treasury Secretary MORE testified to two congressional committees on Tuesday, telling lawmakers the White House had discussed the tax-return issue with Treasury’s legal department before Democrats asked for the documents. Mnuchin said he personally had not spoken to Trump over the tax returns. Trump has said he cannot make the records public because of an audit, and his acting chief of staff on Sunday publicly said the administration will never hand them over to Democrats. Mnuchin was much more reserved in his remarks, telling reporters that it would be a “good guess” that the administration would reply to Democrats by Wednesday in some form. “I think it would be premature at this point to make any specific comments other than, as I’ve been consistent before in saying, it is being reviewed by the legal departments, and we look forward to responding to the letter,” he said at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing. Several hours later, at a House Financial Services Committee hearing, Mnuchin said he will “comply with the law” but has “not made a comment one way or another whether we would supply the tax returns.” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman MORE (D-Mass.) last week requested that the IRS provide the committee with six years of Trump’s personal and business tax... Link to the full article to read more