Maddow Blog | Tax returns show Trump lied about audit. But there's another problem.
Story by Steve Benen •
UPDATE (Dec. 30, 2022, 9:55 a.m. EST): On Friday, after years of legal battles, a House committee finally released former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to the public.
The process began in earnest nearly four years ago. Under existing law, a limited number of congressional leaders have the authority to access individual tax returns from the Treasury Department, and in April 2019, Rep. Richard Neal, the Democratic chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, decided to exercise that power, directing officials from the Treasury Department to turn over Donald Trump’s tax records.
As regular readers know, a lengthy legal fight followed, culminating in the U.S. Supreme Court last month rejecting a last-ditch plea from the former president. The committee, which has jurisdiction over tax laws, soon after obtained six years’ worth of tax materials that the Republican had desperately tried to keep hidden.
Last night, the House Ways and Means Committee voted along party lines to make the documents public.
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