A 14-13 party-line vote in the Senate Finance Committee killed a Democratic amendment that would have barred a Trump administration plan shielding President Trump and his family from future IRS audits.
The amendment was offered during the panel’s first markup this Congress on a bipartisan tax-administration package, and Republicans argued adopting it could sink years of negotiated IRS procedure and due-process fixes.
The proposal also would have extended the statute of limitations for auditing Trump and his family and required the Treasury Department to report any related agreements to Congress.
Democrats said the arrangement was an abuse of power, citing more than 7,000 constituent messages, while Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis are still negotiating possible changes to the audit-immunity plan announced in May.