Is Congress Weaponizing The IRS By Releasing Trump’s Tax Returns?

Every politician’s favorite fantasy is now one step closer to reality. With the public release of former President Trump’s tax returns, the House Ways and Means Committee may have opened a portal into chaos—even more chaos than could be considered normal when it comes to matters that concern interactions between Congress and the IRS.

Congress has been intent on viewing and releasing the former President’s returns since at least 2019 when Richard Neal (D-MA), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, requested that the IRS provide the returns to his Ccommittee. Joseph Thorndike, political historian and regular columnist at TaxNotes, writes in a recent article that at the time of the request “leading Democrats had already spoken gleefully of their plans to make Trump’s tax returns public.”