{"id":606949,"date":"2021-07-30T14:35:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T18:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=606949"},"modified":"2021-07-30T14:35:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T18:35:29","slug":"biden-doj-tells-treasury-to-deliver-trumps-tax-returns-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doj-tells-treasury-to-deliver-trumps-tax-returns-to-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden DOJ Tells Treasury To Deliver Trump\u2019s Tax Returns To Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-doj-tells-treasury-to-deliver-trumps-tax-returns-to-congress%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=606949&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Trump_UFC-e1626430332705.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Justice Department (DOJ) ordered the U.S. Treasury in a Friday letter to deliver former President Donald Trump\u2019s tax returns to Congress, likely ending Trump\u2019s years-long effort to prevent his returns from being publicized.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/olc\/file\/1419111\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter<\/a> from DOJ\u2019s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) told the Treasury Department to deliver the tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee. Acting Assistant Attorney General Dawn Johnsen wrote the order, saying the law clearly allows for House committees to request and obtain such tax information. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/08\/20\/trump-new-york-tax-returns-manhattan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Federal Judge Throws Out Trump\u2019s Latest Attempt To Avoid Releasing Tax Returns)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe statute at issue here is unambiguous: \u2018Upon written request\u2019 of the chairman of one of the three congressional tax committees, the Secretary \u2018shall furnish\u2019 the requested tax information to the Committee,\u201d Johnsen wrote. \u201cApplying the proper degree of deference due the Committee, we believe that there is ample basis to conclude that its June 2021 Request for former President Trump\u2019s tax information would further the Committee\u2019s principal stated objective of assessing the IRS\u2019s presidential audit program\u2014a plainly legitimate area for congressional inquiry and possible legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\" readability=\"7.4683544303797\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEWS: DOJ tells the Treasury Department they must turn former President Trump\u2019s tax returns over to the House Ways and Means Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClareHymes22?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ClareHymes22<\/a> reports. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CBSNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qL37dHghnF\">pic.twitter.com\/qL37dHghnF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sara Cook (@saraecook) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saraecook\/status\/1421165562051317764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Ways and Means Committee originally requested Trump\u2019s returns in mid-June. Democrats in Congress have long tried to obtain Trump\u2019s tax returns by force, subpoenaing Trump\u2019s Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin, and his IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, to deliver the returns to Congress in 2019. Mnuchin held up the process, however, and Trump\u2019s DOJ at the time released a memo arguing that\u201dthe Constitution requires the Committee to demonstrate a legitimate legislative purpose,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/565652-justice-dept-says-trumps-tax-returns-should-be-released\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Friday memo from the DOJ reverses the position of the memo sent under the Trump administration, clearing the way for the Treasury to deliver Trump\u2019s financial information.<\/p>\n<p>Pieces of Trump\u2019s returns have been reported in the past, with the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/09\/28\/donald-trump-new-york-times-personal-tax-returns-irs-internal-revenue-service-750-dean-baquet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unveiling in 2020<\/a> that Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017, and that he had paid none in 10 of the pat 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/25\/manhattan-district-attorney-millions-pages-trump-tax-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">obtained parts of Trump\u2019s tax returns<\/a> in February, but he did not publicize them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department (DOJ) ordered the U.S. Treasury in a Friday letter to deliver former President Donald Trump\u2019s tax returns to Congress, likely ending Trump\u2019s years-long effort to prevent his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}