WASHINGTON Two more top aides to former President Donald Trump could face as much as a year in jail after the House referred them to the Justice Department on Wednesday for refusing to honor subpoenas from the Jan. 6 committee.

The chamber voted on a near party-line vote, 220-203, that trade adviser Peter Navarro and social media director Dan Scavino should be prosecuted for their refusal to turn over requested documents and testify about their roles in the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro must be held accountable for their abuses of the public trust. They must be held accountable for their defiance of the law, said Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Mississippi Democrat who chairs the committee investigating Jan. 6. They are in contempt of Congress, which is a crime.

Rep. Liz Cheney, the Wyoming Republican who serves as the committees vice chair, pointed out that the panel has already heard from 800 witnesses, including more than a dozen former Trump White House officials, and has learned of the many warnings Trump received that his repeated lies about a stolen election could lead to violence on Jan. 6 of last year.

Despite all of these specific warnings, President Trump and his team moved willfully, through multiple means, to attempt to halt the peaceful transfer of power, to halt the constitutional process for counting votes, and to shatter the constitutional bedrock of our great nation, Cheney said, adding that the committee would rather hear from the two men than cite them for contempt. Mr. Scavino and Mr. Navarro have chosen to not appear. They did not have to make this choice, but they did.

Though the committee has two Republican members, most GOP lawmakers claimed the investigation was a partisan attack.

Democrats are using the power of the federal government to jail their political opponents, said Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the House GOP leader. Todays resolution is about criminalizing dissent.

Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin said McCarthy and his allies are creating a Democratic-Republican caucus and a Trump caucus, who are mainly loyal to the former president. This committee is closing in on the truth, and thats why we get all these circus antics, Raskin said.

Navarro has spoken openly about his scheme to stop the scheduled certification of the presidential election on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to keep Trump in power despite his loss. Navarro claimed that he did not have to testify because of executive privilege, and told the committee to take it up with Trump and his lawyers. He continued to refuse to appear for a deposition even after the White House counsels office told him that President Joe Biden had decided not to assert executive privilege on his behalf.

Scavino was Trumps social media director and spent the weeks after Nov. 3, 2020, blasting Trumps election lies out through his Twitter and Facebook accounts, building up anger among his followers that culminated in Jan. 6. He was also with Trump for much of that day, and frequently helped Trump compose and post messages online.