Senators vowed to push back against the Biden administration for refusing to provide access to classified documents found at the residences of two presidents.

Democratic and Republican members of the Senate Intelligence Committee left a classified briefing Wednesday with Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines in an uproar, arguing they are being prevented from performing their congressional oversight duties for the sake of national security.

As reported by CNN, Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) warned “all things will be on the table” to gain access to the documents as the committee was united in wanting to know “if there’s been any intelligence compromised.”

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed special counsels to investigate former President Donald Trump’s and President Joe Biden’s handling of documents, which senators said was the justification the intelligence community gave to withhold information from Congress.

“The bottom line is this: They won’t tell us what they have until the special counsel allows them to tell us. That’s an unacceptable position,” said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, according to NBC News.

Lawmakers have been pressing the intelligence community to conduct damage assessments since the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort last year. The sense of urgency has only grown since classified materials were found in recent months at President Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, residence and think tank office in Washington, D.C., dating back to his time as a senator and vice president. Last week, the public learned classified documents were also discovered at the home of former Vice President Mike Pence.

Accusing the Biden administration of “stonewalling” Congress, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) signaled he is ready to turn up the “pain” by holding up Biden’s nominees — a strategy he’s used in the past — or withholding budgetary funds, according to The Hill.

“I’m prepared to refuse consent to fast-track any nominee from any department or agency and to take every step that I can on every committee on which I serve to impose consequences on the administration until they provide these documents,” said Cotton, who is also a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Haines has yet to comment publicly on the standoff with senators, but she did talk Thursday about preserving “confidence” in the intelligence community’s work by conducting briefings with Congress on a bipartisan basis.

During a speech at the LBJ Presidential Library, Haines insisted she tries to emphasize “what we’re doing is for the nation and not for politics,” according to The Washington Examiner. She also said: “If the public doesn’t trust us and believes that we are biased politically or otherwise frankly in a way that is illegitimate, then people won’t pay attention to the warnings that we have — it makes us less effective from a national security perspective.”

Former President Donald Trump held two campaign events in New Hampshire and South Carolina on Saturday, marking his first formal public appearance since he declared his 2024 candidacy.

His events were more intimate than the large rallies for which he has become known, but still hit on policies that he said would be antithetical to President Joe Biden’s approach to immigration and crime. He also brushed aside any concerns that he may have, in his own words, “lost his step,” telling New Hampshire Republican leaders he is more “angry” and “committed” than ever.

In South Carolina, Trump met with a couple of hundred people and made remarks with Governor Henry McMaster — who is heading the Trump campaign’s South Carolina leadership team — and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on either side of him.

He also hit on cultural issues and education, deriding “wokeness” in the military and “perverts” who are “indoctrinating youth” into believing there are more than two genders. Later in his remarks, Trump promised to cut federal funding for any school pushing leftwing political or sexual content onto children, and to incentivize states to protect the rights of parents in education.

“If any principal is not getting the job done, the parent should have the right and be able to vote and to fire them, and to select someone else that will do the job properly,” Trump said.

Trump’s campaign events come as he remains the only Republican candidate in a field that is expected to grow to include officials who served in the last administration. This week former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said she would soon decide whether she would run in 2024. Both former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently released memoirs, which typically precede presidential announcements for those with aspirations for the nation’s highest office.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who beat his Democratic gubernatorial opponent in 2022 by such a decisive margin that the once-purple state was declared red by legacy media, is also releasing a memoir next month but remains guarded about his plans. Polling suggests that a DeSantis entry in the 2024 Republican primary would cause the biggest splash in the field.

Nominating contest aside, it’s unclear who the Republican nominee would be running against. President Joe Biden has declined to say whether he will seek re-election, and his absence could cause a messy primary process.

Biden, like Trump, is also under investigation by a special counsel over his handling of classified documents.