House Panel Votes to Publicly Release Trump’s Tax Returns
A U.S. House of Representatives panel voted Dec. 20 to make six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns public via a report.
The 24-16 vote, by the House Ways and Means Committee, was along party lines. All Democrats voted in favor and all Republicans voted against after a closed door hearing that lasted more than four hours.
Because Democrats control the House, the party has more members on each panel.
Democrats said later that information they’ve reviewed shows the IRS did not audit Trump for the years 2017 to 2019.
“The American people have a right to know about this alarming state of noncompliance with the mandatory presidential audit. But they can’t take our word for it. They need to see the returns themselves and make their own conclusion, and that’s why it was so important for us to take the vote we did,” Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.), a member of the panel, said at a press conference after the vote….