The White House directed former administration officials Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson not to comply with a subpoena to turn over documents from their time in the West Wing to the House Judiciary Committee.

The White House sent letters to the panel, chaired by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, stating that White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney had told the pair not to hand over the information, CNN reported.

The refusal was based on executive privilege, the same argument used to block the testimony of former White House counsel Don McGahn.

Nadler subpoenaed Hicks, the former White House communications director, and Donaldson, the one-time chief of staff for McGahn, on May 21 for them to appear before the committee and turn over documents.

That deadline is Tuesday.

In a statement, Nadler said Hicks has already agreed to release documents from her time with the Trump campaign in 2016 and said she must comply with the subpoena as part of the investigation into whether Trump obstructed special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

“Federal law makes clear that the documents we requested​ — ​documents that left the White House months ago​ — ​are no longer covered by executive privilege, if they ever were​,” Nadler said. ​”The President has no lawful basis for preventing these witnesses from complying with our request.​”

​The New York Democrat said he would continue to “seek reasonable accommodation” for the panel’s requests and pursue testimony from Hicks and Donaldson.