BREAKING: A House committee voted to publicly release portions of former President Trump’s tax returns.
The vote was along party lines.
"This is about a presidency, not a president," said committee chair Rep. Richard Neal following the vote. Democrats on the committee said after the vote that nine of the last 10 presidents have released their tax returns, with Trump being the one who refused. "The idea that somebody is making millions of dollars and can get away without paying their taxes by avoiding — in an unprecedented way — their tax liability, while single moms who are trying to take care of their kids are being audited, is absolutely unacceptable," said Democratic Rep. Mike Thompson. last month for the Treasury Department to send the returns to Congress. The committee received six years of tax returns for Trump and some of his businesses.
During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump portrayed himself as a smart businessman who paid nothing in federal taxes, but unlike most major presidential candidates, he The only glimpse of his taxes came from reporting by the New York Times in
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