House Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) sent a letter to Chairman James Comer (R-KY) calling on him to compel Jared Kushner, the former president’s son-in-law, to produce documents related to his business ventures in Saudi Arabia.

Last June, when Democrats controlled the House, the Oversight Committee launched an investigation into Kushner and his business dealings overseas, particularly with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund. Just six months after he left the White House, Kushner’s investment firm, A Fin Management, or Affinity, reportedly received a $2 billion investment from the wealth fund, known as the Saudi Public Investment Fund, or PIF, which is closely aligned with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

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At the time, the committee requested documents and communications between Kushner and Saudi officials, none of which Kushner produced.

So, in February of this year, in a previously unreported letter, Raskin wrote to Comer, urging him to join committee Democrats in sending a letter to Kushner compelling him to produce the documents the committee had requested. Comer did not follow Raskin’s request.

In light of this, on Thursday, Raskin sent Comer a follow-up letter asking him to “pursue a serious and objective investigation by issuing a subpoena to Affinity and requiring the firm to comply with my February 15, 2023, request for documents regarding its receipt of billions of dollars from Gulf monarchies.”

Raskin used Comer’s comments about presidents’ families using their position of power to enrich themselves financially in an attempt to argue for the Kushner investigation.

“I trust that you will recognize that the Committee cannot claim to be ‘investigating foreign nationals’ attempts to target and coerce high-ranking U.S. officials’ family members by providing money or other benefits in exchange for certain actions’ without examining the former Administration’s plethora of foreign financial entanglements, including President Trump’s receipt of millions of dollars from foreign governments while in office, a blatant violation of the foreign emoluments clause of the Constitution, and Ivanka Trump’s corresponding receipt of fast-tracked trademark approvals from China and Japan while serving as a White House senior advisor,” Raskin wrote.

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In response to Raskin’s request, a House Oversight spokesperson said in a statement that the letter is “nothing more than an attempt to distract from the mounting evidence of Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s influence-peddling schemes.”

“If Ranking Member Raskin was truly concerned about ethics in government, then he would join Republicans in our investigation of the Bidens’ blatant corruption,” the statement read. “However, Ranking Member Raskin is only concerned about playing Biden family defense lawyer.”