Republicans on the House Oversight Committee requested testimony by officials from the Treasury Department last week after the department failed to comply with a document request for part of the committee’s inquiry into the business dealings of President Joe Biden’s family.
Comer alleged that the Treasury Department is hindering the committee’s inquiry by failing to deliver the reports by the deadline of Jan. 25 and is “acting in bad faith” while delaying their production and giving no indication of when they would offer the records.
Comer asked an agency representative to testify before the committee on March 10.
Comer said the committee plans to examine why the requested records were not supplied by the Treasury Department and the department’s inability to provide a projected timeframe to offer the records.
The committee’s letter asserts that the Treasury Department is standing in the way of their ability to perform their duties, saying: “Treasury must confer with law enforcement partners, who may identify particular law enforcement conflicts or sensitivities... [T]his entire process takes considerable time to complete.”
“Over two weeks later—you have provided no timeframe for when any documents will be produced, including SARs that Treasury has already produced to another congressional office.”
The letter also pointed to the lawmakers’ attempts to obtain information from the Treasury Department, including the deadline to produce documents, the committee’s offer to review the SARs on camera at the treasury department, and an offer to produce SARs on a rolling basis.
“The American people deserve transparency,” Comer wrote on Twitter. “Treasury’s failure to produce requested information related to the Biden family’s influence peddling schemes is unacceptable.”
The Department of Treasury did not respond to a request for comment.