The House Oversight and Accountability Committee has postponed a hearing into the Biden family’s business dealings.
The hearing, titled “The Biden Family Investigation: The Department of the Treasury,” was supposed to be held on Friday at 9 a.m., but committee staff told the Washington Examiner it was delayed because the requested witness refused to attend that day.
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“Treasury Department officials have repeatedly said that they are cooperating with the Committee’s request but all we’ve seen is obstruction,” Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said in a statement released the day before. “We’ve offered multiple good faith accommodations, but Treasury continues to provide excuses and employ delay tactics. We are done with the excuses and calling on Assistant Secretary Jonathan Davidson to answer questions under the penalty of perjury next week.”
The focus of the hearing is the Treasury Department’s refusal to provide bank activity reports about the financial dealings of Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son. The new Republican House majority wants to probe the younger Biden’s foreign business dealings in China and Ukraine by looking at the Treasury’s suspicious activity reports on his transactions.
Even before Republicans had the majority, Comer was requesting documents from the Treasury to mount an investigation into Biden’s embattled son. He sent a new request on Jan. 11 and in late February accused the department of obstructing the investigation when it still hadn’t sent the information.
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“Given the amount of time that has passed since our initial request and Treasury’s inability to provide a projected timeframe when the SARs will be produced, the Committee believes Treasury may be delaying its production to hinder our investigation and operating in bad faith,” Comer wrote in a letter to the Treasury on February 24.
Comer has also requested financial documents from Hunter Biden and his uncle James Biden, the president’s brother.
