Trump’s tax returns spanning six years to be made public within days
Former president Donald Trump’s redacted tax returns are to be made public within days, a House committee has said, in a race against time before the Republicans retake control of the House.
Trump was the first presidential candidate in decades to decline to release his tax filings during either of his campaigns for president.
The House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee confirmed on Tuesday the documents will be released on Friday 30 December.
The Democratic-controlled committee obtained the returns last month as part of an investigation into Trump’s taxes.
It followed a lengthy court battle that culminated in the US Supreme Court ruling in favour of the committee.
In a report on the investigation released last week, the committee accused the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of breaking its own rules by not auditing Trump for three of the four years of his presidency.
US House Ways and Means Committee staff members were escorted by police as they transported boxes of documents related to Trump’s tax affairs
Committee members said they held back the tax returns when they published the rest of their findings because they first needed to redact sensitive information.
A spokesperson for the former president declined to comment.
The cache of documents to be published will likely include Trump’s tax returns filed during the years he ran for and served as president, between 2015 and 2020.
Democrats on the committee said publishing the returns was vital to understanding the context of its report, which also included plans to mandate the IRS to audit all presidents.
They raced to decide how to handle the documents after getting their hands on them in November, as Republicans are about to retake control of the House in January, having won a slim victory in November’s midterm elections.
Thousands of people gathered in various cities across the US as protests against Donald Trump and Elon Musk took place in all 50 states on Saturday.
Around 1,200 demonstrations were planned in locations including Washington DC, New York City and West Palm Beach, Florida – just miles away from where the US president has this weekend played golf.
The “Hands Off!” protests were against the Trump administration’s handling of government downsizing, human rights and the economy, among other issues.
In Washington DC, protesters streamed on the grass in front of the Washington Monument, where one person carried a banner which read: “Make democracy great again.”
Thousands gathered in Washington DC to rally against various Trump policies. Pic: AP
Pic: AP
Another protester took aim at Mr Trump‘s handling of Russia and Ukraine, with a placard that read: “Stop Putin’s puppets from destroying America.”
Tesla boss Mr Musk also featured on many signs due to his role in controversial government cuts as head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Demonstrators in NYC. Pic: AP
People marching in Atlanta, Georgia. Pic: Reuters
A rally in Vermont. Pic: The Brattleboro Reformer via AP
Terry Klein, a retired biomedical scientist, said she drove to the rally to protest Mr Trump’s policies on “everything from immigration to the DOGE stuff to the tariffs this week, to education”.
“I mean, our whole country is under attack, all of our institutions, all the things that make America what it is,” she added.
A drone view of the protest at the Utah State Capitol building. Pic Reuters
A protester sports a Handmaid’s Tale costume. Pic: Reuters
Pic: Reuters
Some at the various protests carried Ukrainian flags, while others sported rainbow attire and waved rainbow flags in support of the LGBTQ+ community.
Other protesters wore Palestinian keffiyeh scarves and carried “Free Palestine” signs.
Thousands marched in New York City’s midtown Manhattan and in Boston, Massachusetts, while hundreds gathered in the sunshine outside the Utah State Capitol building in Salt Lake City, and in the rain outside the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio.
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Mr Trump – who shook financial markets with his tariffs announcement this week – spent the day in Florida, playing a round of golf before returning to his Mar-a-Lago residence.
People protest in Manhattan. Pic: Reuters
Activists in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Pic: AP
Some four miles from Mar-a-Lago, more than 400 people gathered – and drivers honked their horns in support of protesters who held up signs including one which read: “Markets tank, Trump golfs.”
The White House has said Mr Trump plans to go golfing again on Sunday.
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