Chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) has threatened to subpoena American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten if she does not provide documents regarding her communication with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Biden transition team about opening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The Select Subcommittee has attempted — time and time again — to work in good faith with AFT to satisfy the interests of both parties, but Ms. Weingarten and her team continue to obstruct the Select Subcommittee’s investigation and refuse to cooperate with Chairman Wenstrup and his staff," a spokesperson for Wenstrup told the Washington Examiner.

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“Unless an agreement can be reached soon, we will be forced to consider the use of compulsory process,” Wenstrup said in a letter to Weingarten.

Weingarten’s testimony before the subcommittee on April 26 was the first time the subcommittee had been informed that she had both been in contact with the Biden transition team and had direct communications with former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.

Accordingly, the subcommittee has requested all communication records between Weingarten or the AFT and the Biden transition team regarding COVID-19 from November 2020 to January 2021, as well as communication between Weingarten and the Executive Office of the President from January 2021 to March 2021.

The subcommittee has also requested phone records and text messages between Weingarten and Walensky regarding school closures.

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The letter explains that on May 10, select subcommittee staff and AFT counsel engaged in a telephone conversation during which AFT lead counsel Michael Bromwich expressed that the subcommittee’s inquiries were “inappropriate” and “well beyond the original framing” of the investigation.

“These are not proper objections to a congressional investigation,” Wenstrup wrote. “As you know, Congress’ oversight authority is ‘broad’ and ‘indispensable.’ The only limit placed on this authority is a valid legislative purpose. Congressional investigators are not precluded from seeking follow up records should new information come to light, nor are they limited to unilateral relevance determinations made by a witness.”