Sen. Grassley Says ‘Things Aren’t Right With the FBI’ but Opposes GOP Calls to Shut It Down

Sen. Chuck Grassley opposes calls to shut down the FBI though he admits ’things aren’t right with the FBI.’

Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) speaks during a committee business meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 28, 2022. Susan Walsh/AP Photo

Amid scorching GOP criticism of the FBI over undue politicization—including outright calls to shut down the agency and rebuild it from scratch—one Republican senator is telling his party colleagues to cool it.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) was asked in a Sept. 15 interview on an Iowa Public Broadcasting Service program what he thinks about Republican criticism of the federal law enforcement agency, with calls ranging from reducing funding to ones demanding the FBI’s complete dissolution.