HOUSE DEMOCRATS’ BATTLE FOR TRUMP TAX RETURNS BEGINS

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House Democrats pushed legislation during a hearing Thursday that would require presidents and presidential candidates to release tax returns in order to get President Donald Trump’s tax returns.

“We have been called, we have been chosen to lead at this time in our history …” Democratic Georgia Rep. John Lewis said in opening remarks at the hearing. “We will review whether a president, vice president or any candidate for these offices should be required by law to make their tax returns available to the public. In other words, we will ask the question: Does the public need to know that a person holding the highest office in our country obeys the tax laws?”

Lewis is the chair of the oversight subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee, which held the hearing — its first on the subject of presidential tax returns.

The presidential tax return legislation House Democrats want is part of a 571-page election reform bill, the “For the People Act,” also known as House Resolution 1. (RELATED: Howard Schultz Takes Numerous Digs At Trump While Teasing 2020 Run In Indiana)

House Democrats have threatened to go to the extreme of seizing Trump’s tax returns after outcry when Trump bucked four decades of precedent by opting not to release his tax returns during his 2016 campaign.

Trump has released lengthy annual financial disclosures, which are required by the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Democrats, however, say they need his recent tax returns to check on his charitable giving, foreign ties and more. The White House also released Trump’s 2005 tax returns showing he paid $38 million in taxes.

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