In a Senate Finance Committee hearing, Senator In a Senate Finance Committee hearing, Senator Ben Ray Luján confronts Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent with a legal addendum buried inside a Department of Justice settlement — a document that allegedly shields President Trump, his family, and his business associates from IRS investigation.
The settlement stems from Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns. Luján presents the addendum on camera, enters it into the congressional record, and asks Bessent a direct question: did you know your own department signed this?
Bessent's answer raises more questions than it resolves.
Luján also draws attention to a pattern: earlier in the same hearing, Bessent confirmed that tax evaders, money launderers, and insider traders should be prosecuted — then struggled to explain why a legal carve-out for the president appears to exist inside a DOJ-negotiated agreement signed on behalf of the Treasury and the IRS.

Ben Ray Luján confronts Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent with a legal addendum buried inside a Department of Justice settlement — a document that allegedly shields President Trump, his family, and his business associates from IRS investigation.
The settlement stems from Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns. Luján presents the addendum on camera, enters it into the congressional record, and asks Bessent a direct question: did you know your own department signed this?
Bessent's answer raises more questions than it resolves.
Luján also draws attention to a pattern: earlier in the same hearing, Bessent confirmed that tax evaders, money launderers, and insider traders should be prosecuted — then struggled to explain why a legal carve-out for the president appears to exist inside a DOJ-negotiated agreement signed on behalf of the Treasury and the IRS.