The Treasury Department sent six years of Trump's federal tax returns to the Democratic-led committee House Ways and Means Committee, a spokesperson confirmed.
"Treasury has complied with last week’s court decision," a Treasury spokesperson told Axios.The House Ways and Means Committee did not immediately provide comment to Axios.After the Treasury Department denied the committee's request to turn over the documents in 2019, committee chair Rep. Richard Neal filed a lawsuit enforcing its inquiry.
Trump's lawyers argued the committee wanted to publish the records and didn't actually have a legitimate legislative purpose for them.that the committee's request was legitimate and that the Trump-era Treasury Department had no valid reason to refuse it, Axios Jacob Knutson reports.Editor's note: This story has been updated with additional background.
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