The DC Circuit Court affirmed a three-judge panel’s decision that Donald Trump cannot block the House Ways & Means Committee from obtaining his tax returns as part of the Committee’s authority to research government policy, NBC News reports.
“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,” Neal said. “We’ve waited long enough—we must begin our oversight of the IRS’s mandatory presidential audit program as soon as possible.”
The House Ways and Means Committee has been attempting to get Trump’s returns from the Internal Revenue Service to proceed with a number of different probes, including why the agency had such a difficult time auditing Trump’s taxes, which Trump himself had promised to release as long ago as 2015, but claimed they were constantly under audit. In reality, Trump could have released them himself.