House committee to vote on releasing Trump’s tax returns – live

Ex-president faces another day of peril on Capitol Hill after January 6 panel’s referral to the justice department on four criminal charges

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If Monday was a day of reckoning for Donald Trump in Congress, Tuesday is likely to be another when a House committee meets this afternoon to vote on whether to release six years of his tax returns to the public.

A Supreme Court ruling last month cleared the treasury department to hand the documents to the ways and means committee, ending a three-year fight by the former president to shield many of his closest financial secrets.

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