Congress can officially look at Trump’s New York state tax returns now
Congress will probably get to look at President Trump's tax returns one of these days.
As expected, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Monday signed a bill mandating that state tax officials release certain federal officials' tax returns if the House Ways and Means Committee, Senate Finance Committee, or Joint Committee on Taxation ask for them. The law goes into effect immediately, though lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are expecting legal challenges to hold up that process for at least a few months, The Associated Press reports.
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Then again, it's not even clear one of the committees will even ask for Trump's returns. Senate Finance Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has said he won't, though he'll ask for the returns if House Ways and Means Chair Richard Neal (D-Mass.) does, the Journal reports. Yet Neal seems "more focused" on his request for six years of Trump's federal records and his committee's lawsuit against the Treasury Department for them, the Journal continues. After all, Neal has said before that he wouldn't ask for Trump's state returns because they'll reveal pretty much the same information as his federal records.
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