An influential congressional committee voted on Tuesday to release former president Donald Trump’s tax returns, bringing to an end a legal saga that began in 2019 and reached as high as the US Supreme Court.
The Democratically controlled House Ways and Means Committee agreed 24 to 16, along partisan lines, to share the returns with the public.
Though large parts of Mr Trump’s tax returns have been reported by the press and scrutinised by investigators in places like New York, the release still marks a major political blow for Mr Trump, who sought to block Congress from accessing his taxes.
During Mr Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns, he broke with tradition and did not voluntarily share his returns with voters.
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