Three House Republican chairmen are demanding the Biden-Harris administration pause the “latest threatening action” against one of the IRS whistleblowers involved in the federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., sent a letter to the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) on Friday after an attorney for IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley said the IRS demanded he accept a demotion or resign.

Shapley, an IRS Supervisory Special Agent, and Special Agent Joseph Ziegler told independent journalist Catherine Herridge in an interview that aired this week that every investigating federal agency knew the Hunter Biden laptop case was real but ordered them to stand down given the timing of the 2020 election.

Attorney for whistleblower Tristan Leavitt said that less than an hour after Herridge posted the interview, the IRS sent Shapley a notice telling him he had 15 days to accept a demotion or resign. Leavitt posted the letter to X.

“This is egregious, and OSC must take immediate steps to pause this action while it examines the IRS’s decision,” the chairmen wrote.

The chairmen are demanding that Acting Principal Deputy Special Counsel Karen Gorman “seek an immediate stay” of the IRS' “threatening action” against Shapley. They also want “a prompt update on OSC’s investigation into the Whistleblowers’ allegations.”

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