FIRST ON FOX: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and House Education Committee ranking member Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona Wednesday demanding he turn over his correspondence with teacher’s unions.

The House Republican leaders torched the Biden administration secretary over school closures across America and the massive amount of education spending from the Democrats’ American Rescue Plan in a letter exclusively obtained by Fox News.

Additionally, the lawmakers noted that December department data showed only 4% of American Rescue Plan funds for school districts had been touched.

"So, through nearly half of the 2021-2022 school year, most schools were reopened while almost all the ARP funding for schools had gone untouched."

"To the extent schools are spending ARP funds at all, several are reportedly spending their funds on left wing ideological projects," they continued

McCarthy and Foxx called the Biden administration’s response to disrupted learning across America "appalling" and called on the secretary to "do more" to address the school closures

During a House Education and Labor Committee hearing on the priorities of the Department of Education, first-term Rep

The Republican leaders concluded the letter by demanding several documents from the secretary, including a "copy of any emails exchanged between or among Department of Education political appointees and the White House staff, teachers union representatives, Chicago school officials, Milwaukee school officials, Detroit school officials, or Boston school officials regarding school closures."

The Department of Education did not immediately provide comment to Fox News