A federal court on Thursday declined to reconsider an August ruling that gave a House committee the right to Donald Trump’s tax returns for 2015 to 2020, clearing the way for Trump’s records to be handed over to Democratic lawmakers.
to bar the agency from doing so. He argued the lawmakers’ true purpose was political. But the appeals panel agreed with a lower court that lawmakers had “a legitimate legislative purpose” in examining the records, which was to assess whether the current audit system is sufficient.“It is not our place to delve deeper than this,” the appeals panel wrote. “The mere fact that individual members of Congress may have political motivations as well as legislative ones is of no moment.
The original order from the court said a mandate to release the returns would be issued a week after all issues were resolved. Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Richard E. Neal , said in a statement that “the law has always been on our side.” “Former President Trump has tried to delay the inevitable, but once again, the Court has affirmed the strength of our position,” the statement said. “We’ve waited long enough—we must begin our oversight of the IRS’s mandatory presidential audit program as soon as possible.”
Trump broke with other major presidential nominees in refusing to release his tax returns during the campaign and while in office declined to
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