U.S. Department of Justice has slashed funding and training resources for law enforcement working on investigations and prosecutions of sex crimes against children. Worse, prosecutors and official are terrified of discussing the cuts, which limit their ability to carry out this work, for fear of losing their jobs. "You don't want to speak too loudly, because you just fear retaliation, and that's a heavy hand to be dealt when you're just trying to do your job," one prosecutor told the Guardian. "The sweeping cuts, enacted soon after Donald Trump began his second term as US president, are putting vulnerable children at risk and impeding efforts to bring child predators to justice, according to four prosecutors and law enforcement officers specializing in cases of child sexual exploitation, speaking on the condition of anonymity," the Guardian reports.