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House Ways and Means Committee Gains Access to 6 Years of Trump’s Tax Returns

Despite the intense public interest in the case, Democrats are not expected to release the documents to the public.

The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee has gained access to six years of Donald Trump’s federal tax returns—the culmination of a yearslong quest by Democrats to scrutinize the former president’s personal finances. The Treasury Department made the documents available to the committee following a Supreme Court decision last week not to intervene in the case, with none of the judges—including all three of Trump’s appointees—filing a dissent. “Treasury has complied with last week’s court decision,” a spokesperson for the department told The Daily Beast. The committee, led by Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA), was given access to records from both Trump’s personal returns and corporate filings from the former president’s business empire—though Neal refused to say if he or any other committee members had viewed the documents, saying he was prohibited by law from disclosing their status. Despite the intense public interest in the case, Democrats are not expected to release the documents to the public and it remains unclear when committee members will review them, CNN reported Wednesday.