The move from the House oversight committee, led by the chair Carolyn Maloney, marks the latest salvo from Democrats in their years-long pursuit to secure Trump’s tax records and related documents, in a case testing the scope and limits of Congress’s oversight authority. If successful, the committee would be a step closer to obtaining Trump’s tax records and potentially making them public, the source said. Prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office in New York obtained the former president’s tax records in March, just hours after the supreme court denied his last-ditch attempt to keep them concealed. House Democrats and Trump have been locked in a bitterly contested dispute since April 2019, when the committee first issued a subpoena to Mazars USA demanding 10 years’ worth of Trump’s financial records under the leadership of the late Representative Elijah Cummings. Maloney reissued the subpoena to Mazars USA earlier this year, after the initial subpoena expired with the new Congress.

Source: The Guardian May 09, 2021 06:00 UTC