Navarro and Scavino refused to provide documents and testimony to the committee. Navarro, who served as a trade adviser for former President Donald Trump, circulated a plan to delay certification of Electoral College votes and kick them back to state legislatures. Scavino, who handled social media and communications for Trump, spread false information on alleged election fraud and attended several meetings with Trump to discuss challenging the 2020 election results, according to the panel’s contempt report.

It will be up to Justice Department officials to decide whether to pursue charges against the two.

“They have a responsibility to speak to us and if they don’t, you know, we can do our part, but it’s up to them,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said of Scavino and Navarro, noting it is up to DOJ to move forward with criminal charges against the duo.

But House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., criticized the work of the Jan. 6 select committee as a “political show trial,” adding: “Democrats are using the power of the federal government to jail their political opponents — and threatening the attorney general for not doing it fast enough.”

McCarthy and the majority of House Republicans opposed an independent, 9/11-style commission that would have required GOP support to issue subpoenas.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who heads the Jan. 6 panel, said on the floor: “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.”

“They are in contempt of Congress, which is a crime, and I call on my colleagues to do their duty,” he added. “To defend this institution and the rule of law, and to vote yes on this resolution.”

Jan. 6 Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Kinzinger were the lone Republicans to vote to hold Navarro and Scavnino in contempt.