Warren, Brown Call for CFPB Director Nominee to Turn Over Documents on Involvement in Trump Administration's Separation of Children from Their Families
Kathy Kraninger is Top Budget Official Overseeing New Policies Implemented by DHS and DOJ, Including "Zero-Tolerance Policy"
Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs
Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection and Sherrod
Brown (D-Ohio), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, & Urban
Affairs Committee, today sent a letter to the Program Associate Director for
General Government Programs at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Kathy
Kraninger, seeking information on what role she played in the Trump
Administration's cruel policy to separate children from their families at the
United States southern border. The "Zero-Tolerance Policy" was first
announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and has resulted in the Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) tearing away more than 2,000 children from the arms
of their parents. Ms. Kraninger is President Donald Trump's nominee for
Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
Ms. Kraninger manages seven Executive Branch agencies, including DHS and the
Department of Justice (DOJ). This oversight role involves not only preparing
the President's annual budget request for those agencies, but also providing
"ongoing policy and management guidance," overseeing
"implementation of policy options," and working with agencies
throughout the year as they shift money to implement new legislation or
Administration policy. DOJ and DHS are the two agencies that developed and
implemented the "Zero-Tolerance Policy."
"The American people deserve to know what role you have played in
developing and implementing this appalling process," wrote Warren
and Brown.
The senators asked Ms. Kraninger to provide a complete description of any role
she played in OMB budgetary or policy decisions, analyses, or recommendations
related to DOJ's "Zero-Tolerance" policy, a list of meetings or phone
calls she participated in and all emails and other documents related to her
communications with DOJ, DHS, and White House officials related to the
development and implementation of this policy.
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