A U.S. House panel voted to release former President Donald Trump's tax records Tuesday, despite a spirited opposition by Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands, the committee's top Republican.
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“It’s the power to embarrass, harass or destroy Americans through disclosure of their tax returns,” Brady said. “After nearly half a century, the political enemies list is back in Washington, D.C., and we worry this will unleash a cycle of political retribution in Congress.”U.S. Rep.
in 2020, revealing years of payment-avoidance strategies, financial losses and audits that belied his image of a prodigious businessman. But the Times was not able to access Trump’s entire tax history, including three years of records requested by Neal.Joint Committee on Taxation used in 1973 and 1974
Brady and other Republicans saw a public release of tax returns as a personal attack on Trump, saying it “unleashes a dangerous new political weapon that reaches far beyond the former president, and overturns decades of privacy protections for average Americans that have existed since the Watergate reforms.”
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