Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) verbally eviscerated Kathy Kraninger, President Donald Trump’s “unqualified” nominee to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), during a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday in which her role in the administration’s cruel child detention policy was a focus.
Unsatisfied with Kraninger’s responses to questions about her role in implementing the Trump administration’s “fundamentally immoral” policy of forcibly separating immigrant families—as an associate director at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)—Warren declared: “You were part of it, Ms. Kraninger. It is a moral stain that will follow you for the rest of your life, and if the Senate votes to give a big promotion to you after this, then it is a stain on the senators who do so.”
The senator posted her exchange with Kraninger on Twitter:
While Warren’s hearing questions heavily focused on Kraninger’s role in implementing the family separation policy, in a report released Wednesday detailing the nominee’s “dismal management record,” she expressed concerns about Kraninger’s involvement with the Trump administration’s “botched” response to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria:
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