Richard Neal, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, requested the returns in 2019, arguing that Congress needed to determine whether legislation was warranted on the president’s tax returns.
Republicans said the move could lead to the political weaponization of individual tax returns and warned that party members taking over the panel next month would be under pressure to take a similar path against high-profile Democrats.
Trump, who took office in 2017, was the first presidential candidate in decades not to release his taxes. He sued the committee for trying to keep him private but the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the committee.
In a report last week, the committee outlined its findings from its examination of documents, saying the Internal Revenue Service broke its own rules by not auditing Trump for three of the four years he was president. Details previously released by the panel showed Trump paid no income taxes in 2020, his last full year in office, despite millions of dollars in earnings from his vast business empire.