Pelosi predicts Democrats will get Trump tax returns if Biden wins
By Naomi Jagoda - 08/27/20 12:41 PM EDT
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday predicted that if Joe Biden is elected president, his administration would provide House Democrats with President Trump's tax returns.
"When we win this election, and we have a new president of the United States in January, and we have a new secretary of the Treasury, and [Ways and Means Committee Chairman] Richie Neal asks for the president's returns, then the world will see what the president has been hiding all of this time," Pelosi said during a press conference.
Neal, a Democrat from Massachusetts, requested Trump's federal tax returns from the IRS in April 2019, citing a provision of the tax code that states that the Treasury secretary "shall furnish" tax returns requested by the chairs of Congress's tax committees. The Trump administration rejected Neal's request, prompting Neal to file a lawsuit that has yet to be resolved.
If the Ways and Means Committee were to receive Trump's tax returns, it could review them in a closed session and then vote to submit a report to the full House that could make part or all of the documents public.
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