This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Wednesday, July 3rd. I'm Kate Trinko.

And I'm Daniel Davis.

Well, money in politics has gotten a bad rap, especially from the left, which is odd because some

of the biggest money around in politics is liberal money.

The Capital Research Center has traced where the money is in U.S. politics and recently I got to

speak with their president, Scott Walter. He unpacked the idea of dark money and

explained who's paying who and what kind of impact it actually has.

Plus, as we approach Independence Day, National Pride is at a new low.

What's up with that? We'll discuss.

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Now on to our top news.

The House Ways and Means Committee is determined to see President Trump's tax

returns and is now filed a lawsuit to get those returns. The lawsuit which is

against the Treasury Department and Secretary Steve Munuchin,

as well as the IRS, states Section 6103F of the Internal Revenue Code

requires in mandatory terms that Treasury shall furnish the committee with any requested tax return information.

Enacted in 1924 in the wake of congressional attempts to investigate agency wrongdoing in the Teapot Dome corruption

scandal section 6103 F was intended to provide the committee with

unfettered access to tax return information necessary to carry out its broad mandate to oversee

Treasury, the IRS, and the nation's tax laws.

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