Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren asked the Education Department Inspector General to investigate the recent agreements that outsource several grant programs to other federal agencies. 

“The dismantling of ED—including ED’s recent move to transfer a range of statutory duties to other agencies—threatens devastating consequences for students, borrowers, and families,” Warren wrote in a letter Sunday to the Office of Inspector General (OIG).

Warren also detailed what she learned as she delved into the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the department and requested a broader investigation of the dismantling. Her effort included sending eight letters to the Education Department (ED) and a meeting with Education Secretary Linda McMahon. Warren said the department “largely failed to provide complete and transparent answers” in response to her letters.

She argued that layoffs at the ED and other changes might have worsened customer service for student loan borrowers as well as have left students vulnerable to illegal discrimination and predatory for-profit institutions.

She also wants the OIG to look into how Trump officials decided which employees to lay off in the March reduction in force and in October, though those firings were temporarily reversed by Congress.

Education Department officials have repeatedly defended the layoffs and other changes as necessary to rein in a bloated agency that they say shouldn’t exist anyway. Further, while Warren suggested that the administration might be breaking the law in moving the programs to other agencies, Education Secretary Linda McMahon and others say their moves are legal since the ED retains control of the programs.