The US Treasury Department announced on Wednesday that it had cooperated with a court order to provide a congressional committee with access to former President Donald Trump‘s tax returns, which he had long sought to keep secret.
As presidents have done since the 1970s, the 76-year-old Trump refused to release his tax returns while in office and went to court to stop a congressional request. He recently declared his intention to run for president again in 2024.
But earlier in November, the Supreme Court allowed his returns to be delivered to the House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee, which is controlled by Democrats.
“Treasury has complied with last week’s court decision,” a department spokesperson told AFP.
According to a representative, the department did not disclose if the committee had access to the documents.
Requests for reaction from committee members did not immediately receive a response.
The committee has been asking Trump and his connected businesses for their tax returns from 2015 to 2020.
The Supreme Court decision was made with only a few weeks left in the current Congress’s term and with Republican lawmakers set to take control of the House in January after narrowly winning a majority in the midterm elections on November 8th.
