The House Ways and Means Committee got six years of former President Donald Trump's federal income tax returns after the Supreme Court rejected his attempt to block them.
Since the beginning of the year, the committee has been looking for Trump's tax returns.
The Treasury Department has complied with the court decision, according to a Treasury Department spokesman. The IRS is a division of the Treasury Department.
The Ways and Means Committee wants to know how the IRS audits presidential tax returns in order to investigate. A sitting president's returns are audited by the tax agency every year.
As a presidential candidate, Trump refused to release his tax returns, breaking a decades-old tradition. He claimed that he was keeping them out of the public. Tax filers can release their returns to the public.
The returns will not be made public.
Federal employees are not allowed to reveal the contents of a tax return. Federal employees include members of Congress.
Three years ago, the Treasury Department refused to give the committee Trump's returns. The panel is trying to get the records.
The department stopped fighting the committee after Biden took office. The records were to be released.
At the federal district court and appeals court levels, judges ruled that the Ways and Means Committee had a clear-cut right under federal law to obtain the records that the former president wanted.
The Supreme Court was asked to block the committee from receiving the returns.
The supreme court granted a temporary block.
The IRS will be able to deliver the returns to the committee after the nine-member court rejected Trump's request to maintain block.
Three of the justices who make up the court's six justice supermajority were appointed by Trump.
The Supreme Court always rule against me. The post was written on his Truth Social account.
The Supreme Court has become nothing more than a political body with our country paying the price.
He said to shame on them.
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