Dupage Policy Journal

Even as he stands in full support of President Joe Biden’s massive tax increase plan on businesses and the rich, U.S. Rep. Sean Casten is one of six House Democratic Caucus members recently penalized for failing to pay taxes on his D.C. properties before a March deadline.

“Democrats, like Sean Casten, are currently pushing the largest federal tax increase since 1942 to fund their socialist agenda,” National Republican Congressional Committee Deputy Communications Director Mike Ber recently wrote to Illinois Republicans in an email. “But it turns out Casten had trouble paying his own taxes. Public records show and the Washington Free Beacon reports Sean Casten was penalized by the District of Columbia for failing to pay $3,579.60 in property taxes on his DC home, which were due at the end of March.”

According to the Washington Free Beacon, also included in the group of delinquents is Rep. Vicente Gonzales (D-Texas), who owed a combined $9,145.61 on two Capitol Hill homes he listed on his financial disclosure forms.

Casten ranked behind Gonzalez for the largest debt owed, being some $3,579.60 in arrears on a Massachusetts Avenue property that he has not fully paid off. The Free Beacon reports the veteran lawmaker, who faced harsh criticism for trying to declare the condo property his primary residence while running for Congress in Illinois, still owes D.C. a balance of $522.47.

Also on the list are Rep. John Garamendi (Calif.), Andy Kim (N.J.), Sean Patrick Maloney (N.Y.), and Deborah Ross (N.C.). Each was charged interest and a penalty, in addition to the balance they already owe on their homes in the nation’s capital.

The revelation also comes as House Democrats recently unanimously voted to make D.C. a state. On April 22, the House passed a 216-208 party-line vote to admit the District of Columbia as the nation’s 51st state.