Washington: Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee urged the panel's Republican chairman to request President Donald Trump's tax returns from the Treasury Department, but he rejected the request, the media reported.

The Democratic senators in a letter asked Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch on Wednesday to seek the returns "given the critical issues raised by the President's business entanglements", The Hill magazine reported But Hatch along with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady responded in their own letter, saying "we strongly consider the approach you suggest to be an abuse of the tax-writing committees statutory authority".