Biden Administration Gives Trump Tax Returns to House Democrats

President Joe Biden’s administration has handed over years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to the U.S. House of Representatives.

“Treasury has complied with last week’s court decision,” a spokesperson for the Treasury Department, which includes the IRS, told The Epoch Times on Nov. 30.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently rejected a request from Trump to block the IRS from transmitting the returns, lifting a stay that Chief Justice John Roberts had temporarily imposed.

The lifting of the stay meant an order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit came back into effect. That order had directed the IRS to transmit the materials to the House.

Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, has been seeking six years of Trump tax returns since 2019. Neal says the materials are needed to examine the way the IRS audits presidents. He has not sought records from any other president.

A spokesperson for the panel declined to immediately comment on the Treasury’s statement.

Trump and his lawyers had argued that the bid to get the records was politically motivated and designed to publicly release sensitive information, pointing to statements to that effect by leading Democrats such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). But several courts said Neal had put forth a legitimate legislative purpose.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news.