Today, the House Ways and Means Committee is meeting to decide whether to publicly release six years of former president Donald Trump’s federal tax returns that it obtained after a lengthy court battle. The move by the Democratic-led panel could be the latest headache this week for Trump after the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol voted unanimously Monday to refer four criminal charges against him to the Justice Department.
Meanwhile, Democratic and Republican negotiators early Tuesday unveiled a roughly $1.7 trillion deal to fund the U.S. government through most of 2023, setting up a late-hour scramble on Capitol Hill to approve the sprawling package and avert a potential shutdown on Friday. President Biden has no public events scheduled Tuesday.
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House Republican leaders are urging their caucus members to vote against the bipartisan omnibus spending bill. In a letter to Republican members, Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.)'s office wrote, “Leadership recommends a NO vote.” The message goes on to say, “This deal is designed to sideline the incoming Republican House Majority by extending many programs for multiple years.”
One repeated detail in the stories stood out: fictional encounters often featured people addressing Trump as “sir” and asking for help. In 2016, a Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star beg...