Democrats Want To Probe Trump Ties To Deutsche Bank. GOP Says, No Thanks
President Trump has a special relationship with Deutsche Bank. Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee wanted a probe of the German bank. Republicans said no. Here's the back story.
by Marilyn Geewax
Jul 25, 2017
3 minutes
The House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday considered looking into President Trump's financial ties, particularly those linking him to a bank that had been involved with laundering Russian money.
But Republican members voted "nyet" on a straight party-line vote of 34-26.
They defeated a Democrat-sponsored request to order Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to "provide certain documents ... relating to President Trump's financial connections to Russia, certain illegal financial schemes, and related information."
, which deals with banking and money laundering, "will not be spending time and money" on an investigation that already is being
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