Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) had harsh words on Thursday for Kathy Kraninger, Trump’s nominee to lead the primary federal agency tasked to be a watchdog for consumers against Wall Street excess. Ever since Warren proposed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and helped create that agency following the 2008 financial crisis, the Massachusetts senator has crusaded for its existence and independence, in the face of mounting Republican opposition. So while questioning Kraninger—who has no consumer finance background—during a two and a half hour confirmation hearing Thursday, Warren did not mince words, as she and her Democratic colleagues on the Senate banking committee peppered Kraninger about her alleged involvement in the Trump administration’s family separations policy, the botched Hurricane Maria response in Puerto Rico, Kraninger’s management experience, and her lack of experience in the world of consumer protection. Warren called Kraninger’s involvement in family separations “a moral stain that will follow you for the rest of your life.” Kraninger has worked a long career in the federal government, much of it spent working on homeland security.

 

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