Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a shot at President Trump’s response to Monday’s congressional request for his tax returns, tweeting “we didn’t ask you.”
The twitter jab from the freshman congresswoman came hours after the House Ways and Means Committee asked the IRS to release Trump’s 2013 through 2018 tax returns.
When Trump was later asked about the formal congressional request, he told reporters, “until such time as I’m not under audit, I would not be inclined to do it.”
Ocasio-Cortez mockingly recapped the exchange on Twitter.
“Congress: ‘We’re going to need a copy of the President’s tax returns from 2013-2018,’” .
“No, I’m ‘under audit,” she then wrote, reenacting Trump’s reply.
She finished the tweet with a reminder to Trump, saying “we didn’t ask you.”
Earlier in the day, House Ways and Means Committee chair Rep. Richard Neal requested the returns in a letter to the IRS.
The letter read, in part, “Under the Internal Revenue Manual, individual income tax returns of a President are subject to mandatory examination, but this practice is IRS policy and not codified in the Federal tax laws.”