"Rhode Island’s state Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would require candidates for president and vice president to make their tax returns public in order to get on the Rhode Island ballot.
The bill -- which passed by a 34-to-3 vote -- now goes to the state House.
...During Trump’s campaign for the Oval Office, he faced heavy criticism for not releasing copies of his tax returns.
Trump refrained from making his filings public, saying they were under audit by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and he would release them once the review was complete.
...During a 2016 presidential debate, Hillary Clinton accused Trump of refusing to release the returns because they would show his failure to pay federal taxes. "That makes me smart," Trump countered.
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