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The House Ways and Means Committee voted Tuesday evening to release a redacted version of years of federal income tax returns filed by former President Donald Trump.
The 24-16 vote came after the Democratic-controlled committee spent more than four hours in executive session discussing whether to release the returns, and the manner of that release.

The Democratic-controlled committee last month received those tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service after a multi-year court battle to obtain them over the objections of Trump

Trump broke decades of political precedent as a candidate and then as president by refusing to release his tax returns to the public.

Trump sued to block their release, but lost that effort in lower federal courts, and, ultimately, at the Supreme Court.