House Dems Introduce Bill To Force Trump To Release His Tax Returns

By Cameron Joseph
January 4, 2019 11:01 am

House Democrats are taking aim at President Trump’s tax returns with their first major bill package of their new majority.

The provision, announced Friday morning, would require presidents, vice presidents and candidates for those offices to release the last 10 years of their taxes. The President is the first in more than four decades to refuse to divulge his personal finances.

The provision is part of a larger package of ethics, campaign security and voting rights legislation. And like much of the rest of the bill, it’s mostly being pushed for optics and messaging reasons, as it’s almost certain that the provision won’t become law.

That doesn’t mean the fight over Trump’s taxes is going away anytime soon, however. The move is just the latest Democratic attempt to pressure Trump to release his tax returns.

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