DEMS/NEW YORK/TRUMP TAXES: “For more than two years, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has railed against President Trump, attacking his policies on everything from immigration and reproductive rights to his handling of the disaster response in Puerto Rico. Now, Mr. Cuomo, a third-term Democrat, has said he would throw his weight behind an attempt to obtain what may be some of the president’s most sensitive secrets: those that could be buried in Mr. Trump’s state tax returns. Mr. Cuomo’s office said late Monday [4-8-19] that it would back a new bill that would permit the New York Department of Taxation and Finance to release any state tax return — including the president’s — if it were requested by leaders of three congressional committees for any ‘specified and legitimate legislative purpose.’ The office had originally suggested on Monday that the intensifying legislative efforts to obtain those documents could ‘politicize the process,’ even allowing that ‘transparency and disclosure is vital.’ But hours later, it clarified Mr. Cuomo’s position.”
–Jesse McKinley, “Push to Obtain Trump’s N.Y. Tax Returns Wins Cuomo’s Support,” The New York Times online, April 8, 2019