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To talk about funding for various Treasury Department programs. This is long over an hour and a half. Welcome to everybody. Good morning. Senator coons, senator lankford, looking at earlier. Today with the opportunity to review the budget request of the department of the treasury and the Internal Revenue service. As we begin this important hearing, we welcome our witnesses with us today treasury secretary steven mnuchin, irs commissioner John Koskinen and the treasury ig for Tax Administration, russell george. Thank you for being here. The department of the treasury ahas an important mission. Its work is to promote Economic Growth and stability and safeguard our Financial Systems, which is critical to maintaining a Strong Economy and creating economic opportunity. Equally important is its work to combat terrorism. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction money moneylaundering, Drug Trafficking and other National Security threats. The Internal Revenue service has significant rol
To talk about funding for various Treasury Department programs. This is long over an hour and a half. Welcome to everybody. Good morning. Senator coons, senator lankford, looking at earlier. Today with the opportunity to review the budget request of the department of the treasury and the Internal Revenue service. As we begin this important hearing, we welcome our witnesses with us today treasury secretary steven mnuchin, irs commissioner John Koskinen and the treasury ig for Tax Administration, russell george. Thank you for being here. The department of the treasury ahas an important mission. Its work is to promote Economic Growth and stability and safeguard our Financial Systems, which is critical to maintaining a Strong Economy and creating economic opportunity. Equally important is its work to combat terrorism. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction money moneylaundering, Drug Trafficking and other National Security threats. The Internal Revenue service has significant rol
To talk about funding for various Treasury Department programs. This is long over an hour and a half. Welcome to everybody. Good morning. Senator coons, senator lankford, looking at earlier. Today with the opportunity to review the budget request of the department of the treasury and the Internal Revenue service. As we begin this important hearing, we welcome our witnesses with us today treasury secretary steven mnuchin, irs commissioner John Koskinen and the treasury ig for Tax Administration, russell george. Thank you for being here. The department of the treasury ahas an important mission. Its work is to promote Economic Growth and stability and safeguard our Financial Systems, which is critical to maintaining a Strong Economy and creating economic opportunity. Equally important is its work to combat terrorism. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction money moneylaundering, Drug Trafficking and other National Security threats. The Internal Revenue service has significant rol
Secretary mnuchen first. Welcome to everybody. Good morning. Senator cons and senator langford he looked good earlier. Today we have the opportunity to review the budget requests of the department of treasury and the Internal Revenue service. As we begin this important hearing we welcome our Witnesses Today, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchen and irs john koskinen, and the treasury ig for Tax Administration russell george. Thank you for being here. The department of treasury has an important mission. Its work is to promote Economic Growth and stability and safeguard our Financial System which is critical to maintain a Strong Economy and create economic opportunity. Equally important is its work to combat terrorism. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, money laundering, Drug Trafficking and other National Security threats. The Internal Revenue service has the significant role of administering our nations tax laws. To carry this out effectively, taxpayers must have the faith