The House Ways & Means Committee released six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns on Friday, a culmination of a years-long legal battle wherein Mr Trump attempted to stymie efforts to reveal his taxes.
Throughout his time running for president in the 2016 campaign, Mr Trump said he would not release his tax returns because he was being audited. That led to the committee, which writes major tax law and is led by Chairman Richard Neal, to engage in a legal battle beginning in 2019, when Democrats won the majority in the House of Representatives.
