Iowa Republicans senators Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley are seeking answers after receiving disclosures from whistleblowers on the Office of Personnel Management’s decision to reinstate the authority of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive to classify job positions.

It comes after the ATF was found to have unlawfully labeled certain administrative positions as “law enforcement,” a move that cost taxpayers some $20 million.

According to Grassley’s office, new records indicate that the Justice Department’s Justice Management Division, which was supposed to conduct an assessment of the ATF’s practices, requested that a different agency do so. The senators say the resulting report revealed “far-reaching failures” across the DOJ and raised further red flags about an unpublished audit carried out by the OPM.

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