Consumer Confidential: 'Unqualified' and 'dangerous' Trump appointee set to take over consumer agency
by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times
Dec 04, 2018
3 minutes
If all goes according to Republican plan, this is the week a person with no experience in consumer protection will take over the consumer watchdog agency that the party has been steadily weakening to the point of irrelevancy.
Kathy Kraninger, a White House budget official, received the green light for final approval last week after Republican senators shut down debate on her nomination with a party-line vote of 50 to 49. The only wild card is whether memorial services for former President George H.W. Bush will delay
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