WASHINGTON — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Tuesday he will move to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress after he again refused to share an informant file that allegedly implicates President Biden in a $5 million bribery scheme.

Comer (R-Ky.) had set a final compliance deadline of Tuesday, which he said the FBI made clear it would not meet.

“Today, the FBI informed the Committee that it will not provide the unclassified documents subpoenaed by the Committee,” Comer said. “The FBI’s decision to stiff-arm Congress and hide this information from the American people is obstructionist and unacceptable.

“While I have a call scheduled with FBI Director Wray tomorrow to discuss his response further, the Committee has been clear in its intent to protect Congressional oversight authorities and will now be taking steps to hold the FBI Director in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a lawful subpoena,” Comer added.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) promised Tuesday morning that he will lead Republicans in voting to hold Wray in contempt if he refuses to provide the informant file, which McCarthy said could be redacted to protect highly sensitive informant information.

“Let me tell Director Christopher Wray right here, right now: If he misses the deadline today, I’m prepared to move contempt charges in Congress against him,” the speaker told “Fox & Friends.”

The FBI said shortly after Comer’s late-afternoon statement that Wray had offered to provide the Oversight Committee with at least some information about the requested paperwork and that it was “unnecessary” to threaten him with contempt.

“The FBI remains committed to cooperating with the Committee in good faith. In a letter to Chairman Comer earlier today, the FBI committed to providing access to information responsive to the Committee’s subpoena in a format and setting that maintains confidentiality and protects important security interests and the integrity of FBI investigations,” the bureau said.

“Last week, Director Wray scheduled a telephone call for tomorrow to provide additional details of the FBI’s extraordinary accommodation to satisfy the subpoena request. Any discussion of escalation under these circumstances is unnecessary.”

Hours earlier, the FBI had issued a statement repeating its prior qualms about revealing confidential information.

“The FBI’s mission is to protect the American people. Releasing confidential source information could potentially jeopardize investigations and put lives at risk,” a bureau spokesperson said. 

White House spokesman Ian Sams did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment, but tweeted Tuesday morning that “[i]nnuendo and baseless rumor mongering define the extreme MAGA House GOP ‘investigations’ of President Biden.”

Comer issued the legally binding subpoena on May 3 after a whistleblower told Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) about a file “created or modified” on June 30, 2020, that allegedly describes a “criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.”

The FBI did not deny the existence of the informant file and initially refused to provide the document on May 10, citing concerns about informant confidentiality and the fact that tips are unverified.

A contempt of Congress vote can carry criminal penalties but serves primarily to shame the officeholder. Steve Bannon, the one-time chief strategist for former President Donald Trump, was sentenced in October to four months in prison for contempt of Congress after refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

The Justice Department, which includes the FBI, would decide whether to bring criminal charges against Wray if the House votes to hold him in contempt. In the past, prosecutors have chosen not to charge their superiors even if the House finds they broke the law by rebuffing subpoenas.

In 2012, the House held then-Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for refusing to hand over documents on the “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal. And in 2019, the House held Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt for refusing to share documents on attempts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The Cabinet secretaries weren’t prosecuted and all three kept their jobs.

Other congressional tools available to enforce subpoenas include litigation, withholding of funding, or impeachment.

Comer and Grassley have not publicly discussed major details of the bribery allegation, such as specifying which country or US policy decisions it involves — triggering intense speculation.

During and immediately after his vice presidency, Joe Biden interacted with Hunter and first brother James Biden’s associates from China, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine, according to files from Hunter’s abandoned laptop, photographs, and witness recollections.

Last week, Comer revealed the precise date of the alleged informant tip and specified that the bribe amount was $5 million.

In a possible clue, Ukrainian officials held a press conference 17 days before the FBI tipoff in Kyiv, where they showed off $5 million in cash that natural gas company Burisma allegedly offered to the country’s anti-corruption officials to end an investigation of the company’s founder, Mykola Zlochevsky.

The cash seized by Ukrainian officials was paid in $100 bills put on display, though Ukrainian prosecutor Nazar Kholodnytsky said at the press conference that “Biden Jr. and Biden Sr. do not appear in this particular proceeding.”

Burisma employed first son Hunter Biden from 2014 to 2019 — paying him up to $1 million per year despite no relevant industry experience — and an executive from the firm met Vice President Biden at an April 16, 2015, dinner in Washington.

Joe Biden allegedly plugged US support for the natural gas industry in Ukraine days after his son Hunter secretly joined Burisma, according to former White House stenographer Mike McCormick, who has been attempting to contact Delaware US Attorney David Weiss in order to testify to a grand jury investigating the first son for tax fraud, illegal foreign lobbying and other crimes.

The current president also used US aid as leverage to pressure Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who investigated Burisma, though House Democrats presented evidence at Trump’s 2020 impeachment trial for pressuring Kyiv to investigate the Bidens that US allies also advocated for the prosecutor’s ouster due to his own corruption.

A source previously told The Post that the bribery allegation is not believed to deal with China, where the Biden family had two lucrative ventures, including an infamous venture with state-linked firm CEFC China Energy in which Joe was penciled in for a 10% cut as the “big guy.” In 2017 and 2018, CEFC reportedly paid $4.8 million to Hunter and James Biden. Hunter also cofounded state-backed investment fund BHR Partners within days of an Air Force Two trip in 2013 to China’s capital, where he introduced his dad to that firm’s CEO.

Comer argues that Biden corruptly used his prior office to benefit his family and at a May 10 press conference identified nine Biden family members who allegedly received money from countries including China and Romania.

“There’s not going to be anybody left for a Christmas picture if the [DOJ] did their job and went in there and indicted everyone that has any type of fingerprints involved in this influence-peddling scheme,” the Oversight chairman said in a recent TV appearance.