Treasury's Mnuchin due back to face Maxine Waters later this month
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will again come face to face with California Rep. Maxine Waters, chair of the House Financial Services Committee, later this month as Democrats escalate their fight with the Trump administration over tax documents and other information.
Posted — UpdatedMnuchin's last appearance in April before the committee ended in a testy exchange with Waters in which he offered unprompted advice on how to conduct a meeting.
Waters announced Wednesday that he is now scheduled to continue his testimony before the committee on May 22.
The April showdown between Mnuchin and Waters came at the end of a day of back to back hearings for the secretary, who also appeared before the House Appropriations Committee, where he was grilled about responding to Democrats' request for President Donald Trump's tax returns.
Mnuchin this week denied a request from House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal for the tax returns. Neal has said he is consulting with House legal counsel on further steps.
The fight over Trump's tax returns is escalating just as the President has made increasingly clear he expects administration officials to fight requests from Democrats.
At the April hearing, Waters was quick to respond "it's a new day and it's a new chair" when Mnuchin asked to cut his testimony short in order to leave for a scheduled appointment.
"It would be embarrassing if I keep this person waiting for a long period of time," Mnuchin said.
Waters later told CNN's Anderson Cooper that the Treasury secretary's meeting should be secondary to the committee's oversight responsibilities.
"When he said that had somebody important (to meet), I don't think there's anything or anybody more important than the Congress of the United States of America trying to find out what exactly this secretary is doing," said Waters.
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