(CNN) President Donald Trump made yet another move on Tuesday to stop Democrats in Congress from getting his business records.

After a morning court hearing where Trump sought to hold off the congressional subpoena of his accounting firm, the Justice Department told a separate federal judge overseeing a different court case that congressional Democrats should pause their pursuit of his records.

The reason they gave: the President is too busy to deal with it.

This new attempt to stop Democrats from collecting Trump's business information comes amid a growing battle between Congress and Trump for financial records.

Earlier Tuesday, Trump's private legal team was in court asking a judge to kill a subpoena for Trump's accounting records, alleging that Congress should not have the ability to look into the same topics as law enforcement when investigating the President. But the judge pushed back on whether courts could limit Congress' request for information. House Democrats have sent subpoenas , separately, to two banks that worked with Trump and his companies, and to the IRS for his tax returns.

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