House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff threatened to defund the intelligence community if his committee is not provided with the whistleblower complaint regarding President Trump's interactions with Ukraine.

A whistleblower complaint alleging Trump improperly made a "promise" with Ukrainian officials has lately dominated the news cycle, and additional reporting has suggested that Trump urged the foreign government to investigate his potential 2020 opponent Joe Biden.

Schiff appeared on CNN's State of the Union Sunday morning, during which host Jake Tapper asked him if he'd be willing to hold up funding for the intel community to see the full complaint.

"It depends on what funds we withhold," Schiff replied. "In this case, you have the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that is withholding this complaint in violation of the clear letter of the law ... And there are funding requests that that office makes that don’t go directly to national security that we can withhold."

"Look, it is a blunt remedy and one that I’m very reluctant to use," Schiff continued. "At the same time, the inspector general has said this is not only serious, this is not only credible, but it's urgent. We cannot afford to play rope-a-dope in the court for weeks or months on end. We need an answer."

Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson determined the complaint to be "credible and urgent," which forced him to notify congressional oversight committees about it. Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire has refused to hand the complaint over to the congressional committees despite Schiff having issued a subpoena for it.