The U.S. Justice Department, in a reversal, says the Treasury Department must provide the House ways and means committee former U.S. president Donald Trump's tax returns, apparently ending a long legal showdown over the records. During the Trump administration, then-U.S. treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin said he wouldn't turn over the tax returns because he concluded they were being sought by Democrats who control the House of Representatives for partisan reasons. The committee said it needed Trump's taxes for an investigation into whether he complied with tax law. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the tax returns remain of interest to lawmakers. "Access to former President Trump's tax returns is a matter of national security.

Source: CBC News July 30, 2021 19:07 UTC