House Republicans are threatening to subpoena former Gov. Andrew Cuomo as they investigate the deaths of nursing home patients during the opening months of the coronavirus pandemic.

They want to ask Cuomo about his administration’s COVID policies — including effectively requiring nursing homes to admit COVID patients from hospitals.

“That directive was against the CDC recommendations, it was against CMS. And we’re very concerned that he just did not follow the protocol,” said Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, who is a member of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

In May, the GOP-led House panel reached out to Cuomo asking for documents and testimony. In a letter, they said, “Your testimony is important to uncover the circumstances and policies which led to the death of more than 15,000 New York nursing home residents during your tenure.”

Then this week, the subcommittee reached out again, setting an Oct. 17 deadline for Cuomo to hand over materials.

“To date, we have not received a single document from you,” they wrote in a new letter.

“There are too many people in my district who lost loved ones that deserve to have answers. They want to see accountability,” said Malliotakis, who co-signed the letter. “I think this is the only way we’re gonna get it is if we were able to bring Governor Cuomo before our committee.”

The subcommittee says the goal is, in part, to learn from what happened to better prepare for future pandemics.

Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for the former governor, called the latest letter a “farce.”

“The data they seek - which has already been reviewed twice by the DOJ, as well as the State Assembly and the AG, all of which found no there, there - is with the state,” he said in a statement. “It’s unfortunate that some DC politicians are seeking to transparently weaponize people’s pain to advance a political agenda.”

In a statement, a spokesperson for the subcommittee acknowledged Cuomo may not have the materials the panel is seeking, telling Spectrum News, “We’ve reached out to Gov. Cuomo’s team in an attempt to obtain any documents that are responsive to our request, which he may or may not have in his possession.”

The same spokesperson says they’ve also reached out to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration about COVID-related materials.

They said her team has “not produced responsive documents that would satisfy the entire request.”

The New York Department of Health says they are “fully cooperating.”