re: #13 Anymouse 🌹

We’ve got discussions in our office about this. The OMB issued guidance in 2011 saying that they can’t issue refunds during a shutdown. The IRS isn’t issuing any guidance during the shutdown either.

But Rettig and Treasury and OMB issued a statement saying that they’ll issue refunds. So, with that, they’re willing to ignore the previous guidance because the political outcome of not doing so would be severe for the GOP.

Good question. Rettig’s statement simply stated that OMB “concluded that IRS may pay tax refunds during a lapse.”

One thing to watch for is how House GOP members respond to the individual funding bills that @SpeakerPelosi and Dems will take up this week.

— Joshua Rosenberg (@Josros777) January 8, 2019

Meanwhile, everyone still takes the DOJ position on indictment of a sitting president as though it is written in stone. Why? It’s just a position paper and the current administration’s corruption that runs to the very heart of how they got in office should be open to indictment on what we’ve known so far. We’re not talking about misdemeanors here.

We’re talking Trump conspiring with Michael Cohen on money laundering. We’re talking obstruction of justice and interfering in ongoing investigations. We’re talking witness tampering. We’re talking about conspiracy against the US by Trump and his inner circle before, during, and after the campaign.

There is enough here to impeach Trump and everyone associated with Trump.
There’s enough here to indict them too.

(and for those keeping score, this is known as an analogy on how government functions)