House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is calling on the Treasury Department to provide suspicious activity reports (SARs) linked to Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company that employed President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, on its board for several years.

On Wednesday, Comer sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen seeking SARs on file with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network related to Burisma, its entities, and executives — including founder Mykola Zlochevsky — dating back to April 2014 when the younger Biden joined the company. He gave a deadline of July 12.

The request for SARs, which financial institutions can use to flag possible criminal behavior, underscores the GOP-led panel’s efforts to ramp up its inquiry into what Comer has described as a pattern of millions of dollars flowing to Biden family members from foreign nationals under suspicious circumstances. The chairman has emphasized that the investigation may inform legislative reforms to strengthen disclosure requirements and anti-money laundering laws.

“The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is continuing to pursue financial records to follow the Bidens’ money trail to help inform legislative solutions to strengthen public corruption laws,” Comer said in a statement. “Secretary Yellen must provide financial records related to Burisma executives and entities to help further our investigation to determine whether foreign actors targeted the Bidens, President Biden is compromised, and national security is threatened.”

An accompanying press release from the Oversight Committee references an FBI-generated FD-1023 record from June 30, 2020, that is said to memorialize a confidential human source’s allegations of a Ukraine-centered $5 million scheme involving a foreign national paying six figures to secure favorable actions from Joe Biden at a time when he was vice president.

The FBI document also contains claims about the foreign national — identified as a Burisma executive — possessing 17 audio recordings of conversations with Joe and Hunter Biden “allegedly kept as a sort-of insurance policy for the foreign national in case he got into a tight spot,” according to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).

In addition, the Oversight Committee noted that testimony from an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblower provided to the House Ways and Means Committee indicated that the FD-1023 form was not provided to tax investigators involved in the federal inquiry into Hunter Biden and would have been relevant to the probe.

Pushing back on IRS whistleblower claims that the investigation had been restrained by the Department of Justice, Attorney General Merrick Garland has denied allegations of political interference in the inquiry, which last week amounted to a plea deal on tax and gun violations that could lead to no prison time for the 53-year-old Hunter Biden.

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Democrats in Congress have dismissed the House Oversight Committee’s probe as a politically motivated endeavor to tar President Biden ahead of the 2024 election, and the elder Biden himself has called the corruption allegations “a bunch of malarkey.”

Undeterred, GOP members have pursued information on the Biden family’s financial arrangements on a number of fronts. House Oversight Republicans conducted an examination of Biden-related SARs documents in April following a breakthrough agreement with the Treasury Department and clashed with the FBI for the chance just to see the FD-1023 on the alleged bribery scheme. Comer has also issued subpoenas for bank records and witness testimony.

“The FBI has been sitting on allegations for years that Joe Biden solicited and received a bribe while he was Vice President of the United States,” Comer said. “We have no confidence that the FBI did anything to verify the allegations contained within this record and may have intentionally withheld it during the investigation into Hunter Biden’s tax evasion.”

A federal judge in Tennessee has put a partial block on a law intended to shield children from life-altering transgender procedures, following other federal judges who blocked similar protective laws in other states.

U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson placed a temporary injunction against the ban on giving children cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers, which have been shown to have life-altering impacts on children. Richardson did not block the provision of Tennessee’s law banning double mastectomies on girls identifying as boys or other genital procedures.

“If Tennessee wishes to regulate access to certain medical procedures, it must do so in a manner that does not infringe on the rights conferred by the United States Constitution, which is of course supreme to all other laws of the land. With regard to SB1, Tennessee has likely failed to do just this,” Richardson wrote in his ruling.

Richardson’s ruling just places temporarily blocks the law, which was set to go into effect on July 1, but will now be held while a suit against the law is adjudicated. The judge’s ruling was widely condemned by Republicans in the state, who promised to continue the fight.

“It is a sad day in Tennessee when, in place of protecting innocent children, our courts normalize a dangerous ideology that promotes the abuse and chemical castration of healthy young people. I am grateful for the wisdom of the General Assembly in recognizing and passing legislation that, despite today’s disappointing ruling, will protect children from gender-mutilating surgeries beginning July 1st.  Tennessee Republicans will vigorously fight this decision to the highest court in the nation,” said House Majority Leader William Lamberth, the author of the law.

Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, who sponsored the bill in the state Senate, thanked Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti for his “commitment” to appeal the decision.

“I have complete faith that the legislation we passed is constitutional,” Johnson said. “This is a critical part of our efforts to protect Tennessee children, and we are going to continue to fight to protect these kids from permanent, irreversible mutilation of their bodies.”

Tennessee’s law was passed after an investigation from Daily Wire host Matt Walsh revealed that transgender procedures were being performed on children at Vanderbilt’s Pediatric Transgender Clinic.

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“It’s not a surprise that an activist judge has once again stepped in to defend child butchery. We expected this would happen. This fight will end up in the Supreme Court. I’m confident we’ll win there,” Walsh said on Twitter.

It’s not a surprise that an activist judge has once again stepped in to defend child butchery. We expected this would happen. This fight will end up in the Supreme Court. I’m confident we’ll win there. https://t.co/PDmx7fHMcK

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 29, 2023

In response to Walsh’s tweet, Lamberth said he wished Richardson would watch Walsh’s groundbreaking documentary, “What is a Woman?” or speak with Chloe Cole, a young woman who “transitioned” but now has detransitioned and speaks out against the harmful impact of transgender procedures.

“I wish this judge would spend just 10 minutes with brave young people like [Chloe Cole] or watch #WhatIsAWoman No way this decision on medication assisted abuse is handed down after that. Look at the facts. It isn’t gender affirming care, it is gender destroying care. Thank you @MattWalshBlog for your fierce advocacy on this important issue.”

I wish this judge would spend just 10 minutes with brave young people like @ChoooCole or watch #WhatIsAWoman No way this decision on medication assisted abuse is handed down after that. Look at the facts. It isn't gender affirming care, it is gender destroying care. Thank you… https://t.co/MH3hCfwmJp

— William Lamberth (@WilliamLamberth) June 29, 2023

A federal judge in Kentucky also blocked a ban on giving children cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers on Wednesday, joining other judges in Florida, Indiana, and Arkansas who have made similar rulings.