A U.S. House of Representatives panel on Tuesday approved making public former President Donald Trump’s tax documents from 2015 to 2020.
The vote by the House Ways and Means Committee has passed with all Democratic representatives voting in favor and all Republican lawmakers voting against, CNN has reported.
Information on Trump’s taxes could be available this Wednesday, coinciding with the final report on the assault on Capitol Hill, as these are the last days of Democratic control of the House before Republicans take power.
The move could end years of speculation about what his business dealings and personal wealth could reveal, U.S. broadcaster NBC has reported.
Democratic parliamentarian Brendan Boyle has explained that making these documents public, which will also be aired on the House floor, «will take anywhere from a few days to a week» to redact «certain information.»
For his part, Republican Representative Kevin Brady criticized the Democrats’ measure and pointed out that it could provoke threats and reprisals. Thus, he has attacked the Democrats of using Trump’s tax information as a weapon.
Brady has pointed out that the publication would amount to «a dangerous new political weapon that goes far beyond the former president and overturns decades of privacy protections for average Americans that have existed since Watergate Reform,» as reported by CNN.
«We are united in our concern that Democrats could move forward today with an unprecedented action that will jeopardize the right of all Americans to be protected from political attacks by Congress,» he continued.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
