The Justice Department said the House Ways and Means Committee had a legitimate reason to see them.
The US Justice Department ordered the Treasury on Friday to hand former president
Donald Trump's tax records over to Congress, in a major break in an investigation launched into Trump's finances in 2019.
The Justice Department said the House Ways and Means Committee, which sought to gain six years of Trump tax records that some believe could expose questionable accounting, had a legitimate reason to see them.