{"id":50356,"date":"2022-12-01T14:10:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=50356"},"modified":"2022-12-01T14:10:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:10:06","slug":"congressmen-gained-access-to-trumps-tax-returns-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=50356","title":{"rendered":"Congressmen gained access to Trump&#8217;s tax returns \u2013 media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV. UkraineGate .1 . December  .2022 | War NEWS .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0A House committee gained access to former US President Donald Trump&#8217;s tax returns, which put an end to Democrats&#8217; years-long legal battle to obtain these documents. Writes about it The Hill .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Treasury Department spokesman said Wednesday that the ministry complied with the Supreme Court&#8217;s order last week, rejecting Trump&#8217;s emergency appeal to halt the transfer, effectively ending his years-long opposition to the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The news that the department had removed barriers to tax returns was first reported to CNN. The Hill has reached out to the House Budget and Finance Committee for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats in the House of Representatives argued they needed to investigate the IRS&#8217; presidential checks, but Trump&#8217;s lawyers repeatedly pushed them away and suggested the request was purely political.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Supplement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2016, Trump broke the tradition of presidential candidates disclosing their tax returns, which are kept secret unless the citizen himself publishes them, or if lawmakers do not request documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This secrecy gave rise to a request from the Budget Committee, led by Chairman Richard Neal, Massachusetts, to provide Trump&#8217;s personal tax returns from 2013 to 2018 and the returns of eight businesses under his control. The former president argued that the request was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Trump-appointed federal trial judge initially dismissed Trump&#8217;s lawsuit late last year, and that decision was later upheld by a federal appeals court based in the District of Columbia before the former president asked the Supreme Court to intervene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chief Justice John Roberts earlier this month temporarily blocked the publication of Trump&#8217;s tax returns so that the court could fully consider the matter, and without much disagreement, the judges rejected Trump&#8217;s Nov. 22 appeal .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source : Ukrgate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV. UkraineGate .1 . December .2022 | War NEWS . \u00a0A House committee gained access to former US President Donald Trump&#8217;s tax returns, which put an end to Democrats&#8217; years-long legal battle to obtain these documents. Writes about it The Hill . Details A Treasury Department spokesman said Wednesday that the ministry complied with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":50366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11447,10831],"tags":[813,996,2399,1000,1024,1064,1854],"class_list":["post-50356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-society","category-war-news","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-war","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50377,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50356\/revisions\/50377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}