Jacob J. Lew: “Let us not get into a world where we start having the White House jump in for the administration of our tax system…”

If we do not have the resources to hire the enforcement officers that we need, the tax gap will only grow.

The budget also makes critical investments in our domestic and national security priorities while adhering to the bipartisan budget agreement signed into law last fall.

You find cases of tax avoidance, and we know when you find cases of tax avoidance, voluntary compliance goes up.

The real goal is not to restructure the debt. The real goal is to get back to economic growth.