The White House on Wednesday evening blasted a House vote to hold Attorney General William Barr Bill BarrHillicon Valley: Subpoenas for Facebook, Google and Twitter on the cards | Wray rebuffs mail-in voting conspiracies | Reps. raise mass surveillance concerns Bipartisan representatives demand answers on expired surveillance programs YouTube to battle mail-in voting misinformation with info panel on videos MORE and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Wilbur Louis RossTrump admin asks Supreme Court to fast-track excluding people in U.S. illegally from census Trump 'very happy' to allow TikTok to operate in US if security concerns resolved TikTok, WeChat to be banned Sunday from US app stores MORE in contempt as “yet another lawless attempt to harass the President and his Administration.”

“Instead of accepting the numerous good-faith efforts of accommodation the Departments have made, Democrats continue to demand documents that are subject to executive privilege,” Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement.

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“House Democrats know they have no legal right to these documents, but their shameful and cynical politics know no bounds,” she added.

The White House statement noted that the Justice and Commerce Departments have submitted 31,000 documents to the House relating to the census question, echoing a floor speech by Rep. Jim Jordan James (Jim) Daniel JordanHouse panel pulls Powell into partisan battles over pandemic Sunday shows preview: Justice Ginsburg dies, sparking partisan battle over vacancy before election House passes resolution condemning anti-Asian discrimination relating to coronavirus MORE (R-Ohio) ahead of the vote.

The House voted earlier in the evening 230-198 to hold Barr and Ross in criminal contempt over their defiance of subpoenas relating to investigations into White House efforts add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The Supreme Court has since ruled the White House cannot add the question under the justification provided.

The vote is largely symbolic, as the Justice Department is unlikely to pursue criminal referrals against its top official.

Ross earlier issued a statement calling the vote a “PR stunt.”

“It is an unfortunate fact that there are some who would like nothing more than to see this Administration fail whatever the cost to the country may be,” he said. “Preferring to play political games rather than help lead the country, they have made every attempt to ascribe evil motivations to everyday functions of government.”