In a late Tuesday night vote, the House of Representatives voted to hold President Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress. The vote comes after the House Select Committee unanimously voted to recommend the charges be brought against Meadows.

The Hill reports:

The House’s action refers Meadows to the Justice Department on criminal contempt charges for refusing to testify before the select committee probing the Jan. 6 attack. Meadows had provided thousands of pages of documents to investigators, then refused the panel’s request, under subpoena, to talk about them. It was that recalcitrance that prompted the contempt vote.

“It’s a two-part test in order to show compliance with our work: one is the production of documents; the second is sitting for a deposition or interview,” said Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), a member of the Jan. 6 panel. “Mr. Meadows fulfilled one, but he did not fulfill the other.”

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Aguilar said the committee has been in ongoing discussions with Meadows’s attorney, and the panel is willing to hear his story if he has another change of heart and agrees to cooperate. But Democrats aren’t holding their breath for that reversal, noting that Meadows’s initial cooperation had angered Trump, who remains a kingmaker in the GOP.

“It’s certainly our hope that Mark Meadows will cooperate,” said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), chairman of the Democratic Caucus. “But when the cult leader speaks, the cult members usually fall in line.”

So far, neither Meadows nor Trump has commented on the Tuesday vote.