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    White House touts CFPB nominee's management experience. Democrats link it to major controversies

    by Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times Jul 18, 2018 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Kathy Kraninger, the president's choice to be the nation's top consumer financial watchdog, lacks any apparent consumer-protection, regulatory or industry experience - but Republicans say that all is offset by her management and budgetary skills.

    Democrats aren't impressed. They contend that the nominee for director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should think twice about touting those skills at her Senate confirmation hearing Thursday because they're linked to two of the Trump administration's biggest controversies.

    As associate director for general government at the White House Office of Management and Budget, Kraninger oversaw the budgets of agencies that developed and implemented the child-separation policy at the border and the federal government's bungled response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

    On Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.,

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