White House counsel Edward Siskel sent a letter Friday morning to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), calling on the closure of the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden as Republicans start to acknowledge stalled efforts. 

“I write to you today because it is clear the House Republican impeachment is over,” Siskel wrote, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Washington Examiner. 

The four-page letter states House Republicans have held several public hearings, heard from 20 witnesses, and collected 100,000 pages of records but could not prove their allegations of the president’s involvement in his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings and financial benefits from his family’s foreign affairs. 

Siskel said the impeachment inquiry, in part, is based on accusations by “troubling sources,” citing Alexander Smirnov allegedly making false claims to the FBI in 2020 about the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paying Joe Biden and Hunter Biden $5 million each in 2015 and 2016. The claim has been a key point for House Republicans launching an impeachment inquiry into the president.

Siskel noted the House is bleeding Republicans, citing Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) announcing his early exit next week. In explaining his decision to resign early after announcing he won’t run for reelection last year, Buck talked about how the allegations against Biden don’t warrant impeachment, adding his colleagues have “taken impeachment and made it a social media issue as opposed to a constitutional concept.”

“The House Majority ought to work with the President on our economy, national security, and other important priorities on behalf of the American people, not continue to waste time on political stunts like this,” the White House counsel wrote. 

“This impeachment inquiry in large part has been based on allegations made by troubling sources, as recent developments have made clear,” the letter read. 

Given the Republicans’ slim majority in the chamber, it is likely they lack the votes for impeachment. Alternative options have started to surface, such as referring the Bidens’ activities to the Justice Department or legislative reforms, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), who has led the investigation as the House Oversight Committee’s chairman, recently said. 

“Instead of admitting the truth that the President did nothing wrong, the Majority is wasting even more time on abusive steps like trying to re-interview witnesses who already testified — perhaps hoping the facts will be different the second time around,” Siskel said.

“It is obviously time to move on, Mr. Speaker. This impeachment is over. There is too much important work to be done for the American people to continue wasting time on this Charade,” he concluded.

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Johnson’s office said in a statement to the Washington Examiner that impeachment proceedings are within the purview of Congress, not the White House.

“It is not surprising that the White House would prefer to close the ongoing House inquiry which has uncovered that the Biden family and their associates received over $20 million from foreign sources, and that President Biden has lied repeatedly,” Raj Shah, Johnson’s deputy chief of staff, said. “The White House does not get to decide how impeachment gets resolved, that is for Congress to decide.”