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Dem. senator to Bessent: 'You should apologize to the American people'

"That's just not on the up and up, sir."

Things got tense between Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over the one-page document signed by Todd Blanche that stops the Treasury Department or IRS from looking into the prior taxes of President Trump, his family, and his companies.

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