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House committee votes to make public Trump's tax returns
TFG is not having a good month
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/20/trump-tax-returns-house-democrats/
The House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday voted 24-16 to release former president Donald Trump’s tax returns to the public, capping a protracted legal and political battle that began when Trump was in the Oval Office.
Democrats have for more than three years pushed to make Trump’s tax returns public, and the documents were at last made available to the Ways and Means Committee late last month after the Supreme Court denied a last attempt by Trump to withhold the records.
The committee meeting got underway just after 3 p.m. Tuesday, and was immediately moved to a closed session to discuss Trump’s tax returns because of the confidential nature of the subject matter. For the sake of transparency, committee members voted by unanimous consent to make public a transcript of the closed session afterward.
Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.), the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, first sought to obtain six years’ worth of Trump’s tax returns in 2019, after Democrats retook the House majority. They argued that Congress needed to do so to evaluate the effectiveness of annual presidential audits and for the sake of oversight.
Trump — who broke with a decades-long tradition of presidential candidates and presidents by refusing to make his tax returns public — has for years falsely claimed that he could not release them while under “routine audit” by the Internal Revenue Service.
Democrats have for more than three years pushed to make Trump’s tax returns public, and the documents were at last made available to the Ways and Means Committee late last month after the Supreme Court denied a last attempt by Trump to withhold the records.
The committee meeting got underway just after 3 p.m. Tuesday, and was immediately moved to a closed session to discuss Trump’s tax returns because of the confidential nature of the subject matter. For the sake of transparency, committee members voted by unanimous consent to make public a transcript of the closed session afterward.
Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.), the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, first sought to obtain six years’ worth of Trump’s tax returns in 2019, after Democrats retook the House majority. They argued that Congress needed to do so to evaluate the effectiveness of annual presidential audits and for the sake of oversight.
Trump — who broke with a decades-long tradition of presidential candidates and presidents by refusing to make his tax returns public — has for years falsely claimed that he could not release them while under “routine audit” by the Internal Revenue Service.
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