After stonewalling voters for months about his personal finances, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed finally released his tax returns this morning. But the bare-bones, two-page release leaves Michiganders with more questions than answers—particularly about his overseas assets.
“Abdul El-Sayed released his tax returns only after Michiganders’ demands for transparency drowned out his baseless excuses for avoiding scrutiny. Michiganders deserve a senator who will tell the truth about their foreign citizenship and assets,” said NRSC National Press Secretary Bernadette Breslin.
The returns released this morning are different and shorter than the taxes and finances he disclosed during his gubernatorial run just a few years ago.
El-Sayed has still failed to file a personal financial disclosure, which voters are now unlikely to see before Michigan’s Aug. 4 Democratic Senate primary.
For months, news outlets have chronicled El-Sayed’s suspicious excuses for delaying disclosure, including his history of foreign income and assets—none of which appears in his bare-bones tax release.
Zeteo: In July 2026, El-Sayed told Medehi Hassan that his taxes get “complicated” because his wife and her family “own property abroad.”
WLNS 6: “El-Sayed, a physician and former Wayne County health director, had faced criticism after seeking an extension to file his personal financial disclosure until Aug. 13 — after the primary — which he attributed to overseas property held by his wife’s family.”
Fox News: “The post, which comes a little under a month before a primary against Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., a pro-Israel and establishment candidate, raises questions about foreign interests represented in American elections and whether El-Sayed’s criticisms could be applied to other groups.”