U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has called on the top officials at the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI to explain why they gutted and shuttered special units focused on rooting out corruption in government.

The Justice Department’s “refusal to enforce anti-corruption laws betrays the public trust and will create lasting harm to Americans’ faith in the integrity of government officials,” Warren, joined Democratic colleagues on both sides of Capitol Hill, Democrats wrote Thursday to U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel.

“By shuttering the public corruption work of both the FBI and DOJ, you and President [Donald] Trump are giving the green light to would-be lawbreakers,” Warren and her colleagues wrote.

In March, the Justice Department slashed staff at

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