Gillibrand joins Senator Elizabeth Warren as the only two Democratic 2020 contenders who have released recent tax information. Warren’s most recent tax return is from 2017, prior to when the Republican tax law took effect.
Gillibrand is using the release to needle her opponents -- such as Senator Bernie Sanders, who has been reluctant to make his returns public in the past -- to disclose their own tax information. President Donald Trump refused to make his tax documents public in the 2016 campaign, despite a 40-year tradition of presidential nominees doing so.
House Democrats are currently studying how to ask Treasury to turn over the president’s returns.
“Transparency is an essential tool to combat the corrupting influence of money in politics,” Gillibrand said in a statement. “I’m urging all presidential candidates to join me and disclose at least ten years of their taxes, which will strengthen our ability to beat President Trump.”
Sanders said last month he would release 10 years of tax returns “soon.” The Vermont independent only released one tax return when he ran against Hillary Clinton for the nomination in 2016.
Former Congressman Beto O’Rourke, Senator Amy Klobuchar and former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg have said they would release their returns, but haven’t set a time line. Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker haven’t yet said if they plan to disclose their documents.
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