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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans threaten retaliation for release of Trump's Tax Returns
Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee have followed through with their vow to make public six years of former President Donald Trumps tax returns, giving the American public new insight into his business dealings and drawing threats of retaliation from congressional Republicans.
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The release of the documents Friday set off a new round of attacks between Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill, including threats of escalating and politically motivated future releases of private tax information.
Democrats cast the move as necessary oversight on a president who broke decades of precedent in declining to release his returns.
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But Republicans who won control of the House in November warned Democrats that they had started down a dangerous road and that public pressure could push the incoming majority to release returns from President Joe Bidens family or a wide range of other private individuals.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/key-takeaways-trumps-tax-returns-192217355.html
Private individuals? I don't believe there's a legal precedent for that.
It's more like, "Nice family you have there Joe. Shame if something was to happen to them."
bottomofthehill
(8,332 posts)Ways and Means should release 6 years of Joe Bidens taxes.
I k ow he has released his past twenty, but for parity, release the last 6
tinymontgomery
(2,584 posts)The senate should tell them bring it on and tell them they
will release every one of theirs. I'm sure their a lot more crooked
then the Democrat's.