Biden White House aides face Oversight deadline amid threat of subpoenas

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Biden staffers respond to Comer as subpoena on Biden health probe looms

Fox News senior national correspondent Aishah Hasnie reports on lawmakers’ calls for former Biden administration aides to testify in a probe into the former president’s health and reported use of an autopen.

Today is the deadline for former President Joe Biden’s White House former physician and four aides to respond to House Oversight Committee interview requests.

Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is demanding the high-ranking staffers in Biden’s White House appear for transcribed interviews on their suspected roles, working "behind the scenes" to "cover up" the former president’s mental decline during his term.

Comer sent interview requests to four key Biden White House aides — former director of the Domestic Policy Council Neera Tanden, former assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini, former senior advisor to the first lady Anthony Bernal and former deputy director of Oval Office operations Ashley Williams.

KEY BIDEN STAFFERS ASKED TO TESTIFY ON ALLEGED ROLE IN MENTAL DECLINE ‘COVER-UP’

President Joe Biden speaks in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, D.C., on April 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

FOX is told lawyers for Tanden, Bernal, Tomasini and Williams have contacted the committee, but no interviews are confirmed or scheduled. 

So far, there’s been no contact with physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor. While the Bidens have stayed silent on the latest congressional probe, former first lady Jill Biden’s former press secretary is pushing back. 

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Former President Joe Biden, left, and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File and Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

"With regards to Chairman Comer...he spent two years trying to take on the Biden family and came up with nothing. He went fishing in a dry lake," said Michael LaRosa.

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If they don’t commit by day’s end, the committee said it is ready to issue subpoenas immediately.

"We believe these are the staffers that were responsible for using the autopen... We want to ask them, ‘Who gave you the authority to use Joe Biden’s signature?’" Comer said on "Hannity."

Rep. James Comer, left, and former President Joe Biden. (Getty Images)